A marvellously talented, sometimes temperamental individualist who lent £100,000 worth of forceful right-flank panache to Jimmy Bloomfield's elegant teams of the early 70s, Keith could usually be relied upon to deliver a tellingly spectacular contribution to the most mundane of games.

City fans were treated to regular displays of both his midfield and striking skills, while national television audiences also gasped at some of his exploits; a mazy 'Goal of the Season' at Luton in the Cup (and a long-range own goal on the same ground a year later!), a thunderbolt volley against Newcastle, and Keith's final City goal - when he dazzled Norwich defenders with his white tights - among them. Keith won four England caps (scoring once with a rare header) and once represented the Football League while with City - and he had previously toured New Zealand and the Far East with an FA party during his Millwall days - yet his sole honour at club level remained his medal from Chelsea's European Cup Winners' Cup victory of 1971.

His occasional frustrations at Leicester peaked in the notorious incident when he refused to take the field for the second half of a League game against Ipswich in December 1974, and his last couple of Filbert Street seasons were marred by knee injuries that sadly cut short his top-class career, but memories of his cool brilliance predominate.

Keith sadly lost a two-and-a-half year battle against a rare form of cancer in November 2004 when he died at the age of 58.

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