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Gordon Banks - RIP

ShootersHillGuru
ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
in Other Football and Sports
Died aged 81
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  • JamesSeed
    JamesSeed Posts: 17,380
    edited February 2019
    One of the true legends of English football. RIP. 
    Apparently he trained harder than practically any other keeper at that time. Used to finish training covered in bruises. 
  • Greenie
    Greenie Posts: 9,172
    RIP Banksy.........!
    That save from Pele..........!
  • EveshamAddick
    EveshamAddick Posts: 7,013
    RIP.
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,820
    All time great.  RIP
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,214
    A hero of my youth and a fantastic keeper.

    Remember when a boy at my school lost an eye and Gordon wrote to him as he too had lost an eye.

    RIP
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,730
    RIP
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    Final whistle for the big man 
    RIP
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    Wonderful keeper.
    We would have won the WC twice if he had been well in Mexico.
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    RIP.
    A genuine great.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    I doubt there’s a single football fan in the world over the age of 30 that doesn’t know of him. RIP
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  • creepyaddick
    creepyaddick Posts: 6,152
    Rest in peace
    Sad day today

    I was Gordon Banks so many times when i was little and not even Pele could beat me
  • Charlton_Stu
    Charlton_Stu Posts: 3,866
    RIP. 
    Never saw him play live, but the highlights iv'e seen of him are unbelievable.
  • bristoladdick
    bristoladdick Posts: 1,147
    Very sad news. RIP.
  • 1905
    1905 Posts: 2,751
    RIP - a true legend
  • AddickFC81
    AddickFC81 Posts: 4,053
    RIP
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    RIP, a real legend of the game and indeed of English sport
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,288
    RIP Gordon...

    One of the greatest ever Goalkeepers in the game!!
  • Hastingsaddick
    Hastingsaddick Posts: 4,079
    RIP....England have been blessed with some great keepers but doubt any were as good as Gordon.
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,619
    He was the gold standard for goalkeepers.
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,330
    Why was he never knighted?

    Why weren’t they all?

    Greaters sporting achievement, and when you look at some that all these honours it just seems wrong.

    Great player and a credit to the whole of football. RIP Mr Banks. Thanks for the memories.
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  • Davo55
    Davo55 Posts: 7,836
    What a choker. RIP Gordon Banks. One of my early heroes and a true gentleman. 
  • msomerton
    msomerton Posts: 2,971
    Sad news, a great man and goal keeper. It was sad enough when he lost the sight in one eye to put an end to a great caree. I remeber  many times when watching england football on the TV  as child  I would leap up after thinking no way could he pull off a save and he did, many more times than most keepers would, My condolences to his family.
  • Cardinal Sin
    Cardinal Sin Posts: 5,233
    The Old Man would make a point of taking me as a nipper every time Chelsea faced Banks because he was "worth paying to see on his own." If he hadn't lost an eye in a car crash he would have undoubtedly gone on to be the greatest goalkeeper ever.
  • Chippycafc
    Chippycafc Posts: 14,140
    Legend RIP Banksey....
  • happyvalley
    happyvalley Posts: 8,996
    RIP Gordon. Probably made the best ever save.
  • Goonerhater
    Goonerhater Posts: 12,677
    RIP
  • Nug
    Nug Posts: 4,623
    https://youtu.be/ngE9RCAdWaE

    RIP
  • cafc_harry
    cafc_harry Posts: 3,359
    RIP
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,838

    Although he was a good age, this still feels like a shock, he was such a legend when I first got into football.  

    RIP

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