'The banks of my own lovely Lee' rang out as Frank O’Farrell left his beloved St Denis church for the last time

Frank O'Farrell's grandson Richard Coombes said: 

They laid Frank O’Farrell to rest on the English Riviera yesterday with a glowing tribute from the most powerful man in world football and another from a notorious London gangster.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino sent a personal message of fond farewell from Zurich, acknowledging the mark left on the global stage by an Irishman derailed at an early age from his boyhood ambition of becoming an engine driver like his father.