Alomar was a complete player for most of his career with his best years coming with the Toronto Blue Jays where heledthem to two World Series championships in 1992-93.
He inspired them to victories over Dundee and Dundee United that kept the Pars in the SPL and resurrected memories of the 1980s, when heledthem from Scottish football's bottom rung and back to the top flight.
He left Fratton Park to join rivals Southampton but he lasted less than a year, returning to Portsmouth, where heledthem to victory in the FA Cup final in 2008 - the club's first major trophy for 58 years.