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Francis Lee is a former professional footballer. Lee played for Manchester City, and has been described as barrel-chested, well built and short-tempered.
Lee was described by David Lacey of The Guardian newspaper as "A Jet-Propelled Puffin" when performing the feat for which he was most famous on the football pitch: when gently nudged by an opposition player anywhere in the opposition half, Lee had the ability to throw himself horizontally, defying gravity, into the opposition penalty area, landing with a theatrical flail of limbs and recovering from his agony long enough to appeal to the referee for a penalty kick.
Lee went on to run Manchester City in the 1990's after ousting the previous chairman Peter Swales. He hired his good friend Alan Ball and plunged Manchester City into one of their famous yo-yo periods where they managed to go from the top divsion of the football league into the third division and back again in short order. He is known as "The Bog Roll King" due to his toilet roll manufacturing business.