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It has been announced that Ray Evans who played for Preston in the 1950's died on 26 June, five days after his 76th birthday.

As some of you may or may not know the football network of rivals.net has closed down this morning leaving many supporters without a regular site to log on to.

The Preston players returned to pre-season at Springfields ahead of their training camp in Austria.

As pre-season training begins we bring you the last in our old boy season round-up which features a North End legend.

Preston's young keeper, Chris Neal has joined Shrewsbury on a permanent deal to reignite forces with former boss, Paul Simpson.

Alan Irvine confirmed today that he will not be joining West Brom as manager of the West Midlands club.

It is believed that West Brom were waiting for the new working week to begin before going through the official channels in their approach to take Alan Irvine to the Hawthorns.

It has been rumoured in the press that West Brom believe Alan Irvine to be the perfect candidate to fill the vacant spot at the Hawthorns left by Tony Mowbray.