Gordon Banks - 1937-2019 - Legend

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  1. Otter

    Otter Gambling industry insider

    BBC have announced that the England World Cup winning goalkeeper has passed away aged 81.
     
  2. Beekayess

    Beekayess Reservist

    Sad. A quality goalkeeper in his day. RIP.
     
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  3. hornetboy1

    hornetboy1 First Team Captain

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  4. Teide1

    Teide1 Squad Player

    Never heard a bad word regarding him, should have been knighted!.

    R.I.P. Sir Gordon You will be remembered for being a true Gent and a Footballing hero!
     
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  5. zztop

    zztop Eurovision Winner 2015

    Wow, that is sad. I'm losing a lot of my boyhood hero's these days.
     
  6. Bwood_Horn

    Bwood_Horn Squad Player

    Was this because of South Africa?
     
  7. Teide1

    Teide1 Squad Player

    Could be just played three games for Hellenic in 1971, a minor indiscretion if that cost him a knighthood!
     
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  8. Sahorn

    Sahorn Reservist

    As Pele said “I scored 1000 goals but what many talk about is the goal I didn’t score - the save by Gordon Banks”
    Quarter final World Cup 1970.

    RIP Mr Banks, old school gent and at one point World Number 1 goalkeeper.
     
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  10. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    Not ashamed to admit I shed a tear this morning. Another apparent immortal gone.
     
  11. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    During one's primary school days, Gordon Banks was a permanent & reassuring presence.

    Like your parents but better at catching crosses.

    An overused term but he is an England legend.
     
  12. WillisWasTheWorst

    WillisWasTheWorst Its making less grammar mistake's thats important

    ‘Safe as the Banks of England’.
     
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  13. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    For England, he should be an immortal.

    He may well have been England’s greatest player.

    I can’t think of another one who held such international respect for so long.
     
  14. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    I remember Mexico '70 very faintly.
    My brother eating toast and grainy colour tv.
    I do remember THAT save and the loss to W Germany.
    A sad day and another of the '66 squad slips away.
    RIP.
     
  15. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Colour tv!

    You must have been the talk of your street.
     
  16. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

    Were World Cup coins at the same time as the splendid History of Flight series?

    Louis Blériot had the aura of a Penny Black.
     
  17. I Blame Pozzo

    I Blame Pozzo First Team

    Oh I don't remember the flight ones but I still have Brian Labone somewhere I think or possibly Alan Mullery,who I expect is in the fridge,next to the gin!
     
  18. RookeryDad

    RookeryDad Squad Player

  19. tonycotonstache

    tonycotonstache Squad Player

    An all time great. A gentleman and a World Cup winner for England. More than just that one save he will always be the greatest may he rest in peace.
     
  20. Smudger

    Smudger Messi's Mad Coach Staff Member

    I personally think the honours system is a nonsense anyway. What counts is what a person has achieved in their respective field and the accolades of their fellows in that particular field. And when you look at the responses of those people then you can see he was a great player and person. He is one of the few people to have a won a World Cup medal and that is what counts. The fact that he was not knighted should not be here or there. What should be noted is the fact he had to sell his medal to make ends meet. It is such a shame that we have gone from one extreme where players were not adequately recompensed to the other where they are vastly overpaid for what they do.

    I am sure Stoke will or indeed Leicester will eventually build a statue of him. In those times fans were more respectful of opposition players and after his retirement led by Bill Shankley Banks received a huge ovation from the Kop after his career ending car accident. Banks would have ended up with Liverpool after the World Cup with Peter Shilton emerging at Leicester (and with whom he was a major part of their 1969 FA Cup winning side) but for the price tag. £50000. Banks lfet he merited the sum but Liverpool board members baulked at the fee. Strange really considering the lack of any real quality keepers in England at the time. Mulhearn at a then very strong Manchester City and the disaster zone that was Gary Sprake at Leeds.

    The Banks of England getting a raucous ovation from the Kop after his retirement in 1973:

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    The two greatest England keepers in training together at Stokes old Victoria Ground:

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