Club FA Cup hero passes away

A member of Peterborough United’s FA quarter-final team has passed away.

Ron Cooper, right-back in the side that beat Arsenal at London Road on their way to a quarter-final defeat against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge in 1965, died at Cedars Care Home in Bourne aged 79.

Cooper made 150 appearances for Posh in the club’s Football League era, scoring once.

He left Posh aged 30 in 1968 after a testimonial game against Brian Clough’s Derby County.

The run to the quarter-finals remains Posh’s best FA Cup performance.

Another Posh star of the sixties, Ray Smith, will be the guest speaker at the second event for the club’s senior citizen fans at the Posh Venue at the ABAX Stadium on Wednesday, April 25.

Smith was part of the allconquering 1960-61 team