RIP Gordon Banks

[BaggieBlood]

Brilliant keeper and WC winner.

Best wishes to his family.

[mickd1961]

As a ten year old in 1971 he came to a local primary school and I got his autograph.

I had a middle page spread from Shoot magazine of him making a miraculous penalty save from West Ham’s Geoff Hurst in the Stoke 1972 League Cup winning campaign in the semi final.

A very nice man who never complained about cruelly losing his eye in a car crash.

An absolute giant of the game.

R.I.P.

[Roymit]

Just the most brilliant keeper ever. I remember being taken out for a picnic by my aunt and uncle but wanting desperately to get home so I could get to the game against Stoke in 1970. I really wanted to see Banks and couldn't believe it when we stuck five past them. As my brother and I walked away from the ground afterwards we overheard a Stoke supporter say, "He has one bad game a season and that was it!" A phenomenon.

[9goals2hattricks3pen]

We put a 6 two 5's and a 3 past Banks in games for Leicester and Stoke at the Hawthorns during the 60's and early 70. We always seemed to get loads of goals v Banks, Booby Moore and Man Utd in those days.

Would probably be the only Englishman I would consider for an all time World X1.

[phild]

Still sends a tingle down the spine watching Banks save that Pele header.

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[SCOOP115]

We put a 6 two 5's and a 3 past Banks in games for Leicester and Stoke at the Hawthorns during the 60's and early 70. We always seemed to get loads of goals v Banks,

He was still scared stiff of the King.How many people remember that ? Great keeper non the less

[stripes39]

So sad to hear this news. I've got a picture on my office wall at home of Banks'y making that save from Pele. He signed it for me at a after dinner event. A genuinely nice modest man. What makes it all the more sad is that its yet another piece of our footballing past that's left us, representative of a time when footballers however great on the field connected with the supporters and weren't the headphone wearing millionaires hiding behind a security screen.

It's interesting that when FIFA voted their all time World X1 voted by 70 or so of the leading sports journalists globally , the only Englishman to get in to the side was Bobby Moore. Banks came a runner up to Lev Yashin who many considered the best keeper ever. I'd say that most likely made Banks the best English keeper ever. RIP. Will be missed.

[Dubbag]

Still sends a tingle down the spine watching Banks save that Pele header.

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What always struck me about that save was this.....he made arguable one of the best saves ever from one of the beast players ever against one of the best teams ever.....and just got up and got ready for the corner. No high fives from team mates...just play the game.
So much BS attached to the game today...

REST IN PEACE dear friend...

[BaggieBlood]

It totally slipped my mind, and my Dad reminded me that I actually met and shook the (big) hand of the great man when I was younger when he was doing a guest appearance at a new opening of this or other building.

He was a gent.

It was interesting that last night local new varied so much with ITV concentrating on his Stoke days (very sad as he and 3 other former Stoke players including our ex manager went for a walk every Tuesday at Trentham Gardens) and BBC on his time at the Foxes.