In an era of "stay at home" centremen, Lance Oswald was a free-ranging footballer who had a tremendous capacity for gathering possessions all over the ground.

In the early 1960s, he was rated the best midfielder in the land, and while some of the older-style critics were not in favour of his style, Oswald was ahead of his time in the sense that he was the sort of non-stop running footballer who would have fitted in perfectly in today's game.