My friend Tony Linforth-Hall, who has died aged 77 of Hodgkin lymphoma, used his advertising skills to promote two very different causes: the Social Democratic party; and walking football, the increasingly popular sport for the over-50s, which he credited with prolonging his life.
Tony started playing walking football at Millwall FC, south-east London, on retiring from his advertising career. After his cancer diagnosis in 2016, he was among the original “Undefeatables”, whose stories were told by a coalition of charities to encourage people with chronic conditions to remain active.
