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Gordon Banks - RIP

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  • mistrollingin
    mistrollingin Posts: 3,868
    Starinnaddick said:
    I remember him saving a penalty from John Hewie at what is now the Jimmy South end.
    Nice man.  RIP Gordon

    I was at that match, 1962-3 my first full season supporting Charlton.

    A League Cup replay under lights, we drew the first match at Leicester the week before, 4-4, after being 4 down at half time and won the replay 2-1.

    Happy days.

    RIP Gordon, simply the best.



  • Afternoon Delight
    Afternoon Delight Posts: 912
    Sad news. RIP
  • addick05
    addick05 Posts: 2,348
    Had the distinct pleasure of meeting him once. A true gentleman and one of my earliest heroes. Remember the save against Geoff Hurst... don't remember Hurst ever missing a penalty. Probably the only English keeper who will ever win a World Cup! 
  • Welly
    Welly Posts: 493
    RIP a true football legend should have been  Sir Gordon Banks.
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    RIP. 
  • Alex Wright
    Alex Wright Posts: 8,214
    As a kid when I played football if you were a forward you were Geoff hurst / Jimmy Greaves / George Best etc etc.

    If you were a goalkeeper you were always Gordon Banks

    RIP.
  • Dugdaleclass
    Dugdaleclass Posts: 554
    Another of that gilded team leaves us. What memories he leaves behind. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,840
    I hadn't realised that he left Leicester only a year after the WC win after they decided to go with Peter Shilton instead. Shilton was a great keeper too, but that's still a major call.
  • addickson
    addickson Posts: 890
    Alex Wright said:
    As a kid when I played football if you were a forward you were Geoff hurst / Jimmy Greaves / George Best etc etc.

    If you were a goalkeeper you were always Gordon Banks

    RIP.
    As a Scottish kid it was Johnstone, Law or Lorimer, but it was always Banks.
    RIP
  • Derek1952
    Derek1952 Posts: 779
    Whos gone,or left from 1966. What fee would he fetch today,at peace Gordon.
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  • AshBurton
    AshBurton Posts: 1,142
    Aargh, only just saw this. Blubbed in the 70s when he had his horrific car accident and just repeated it at my desk. A complete legend. RIP Gordon
  • smudge7946
    smudge7946 Posts: 4,131
    His nephew plays drums with Pulp. 
  • RedChaser
    RedChaser Posts: 19,885
    RIP Gordon, a world cup winning legend and great keeper. The best I have had the pleasure of watching in my lifetime.
  • LennyLowrent
    LennyLowrent Posts: 2,705
    edited February 2019
    Rip Banks.
    Felt like I won the Lottery when as a young kid I watched  him when he came over with Stock City playing a friendly against Israel in Tel Aviv.
    Will never forget it, and that save...

  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,409
    God will put him straight in the first team - probably in charge of the pearly gates. 
  • philcafc
    philcafc Posts: 3,883
    England's greatest keeper and a true legend of the game. RIP Gordon.
  • Rob
    Rob Posts: 11,776
    RIP. A true great.
  • uie2
    uie2 Posts: 4,596
    Legend , RIP Gordon 
  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,295
    RIP. I can only reiterate the many fabulous comment already in this thread.
  • Weegie Addick
    Weegie Addick Posts: 16,520
    Rest in peace, Gordon.
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  • Lewis Coaches
    Lewis Coaches Posts: 5,408

    Met him once on the way home from Barnsley...He had been working for BBC in Chesterfield that day.

    He was with other people on a train but still found time to speak with me about football and Charlton.

    Signed my pack of UNO cards what a gent.

    Rest in peace,the greatest english goalkeeper ever.

  • Addictedoldgit
    Addictedoldgit Posts: 1,825
    Another one of the 'boys of 66' gone.

    Imo he was a truly incomparable keeper, or perhaps the great Lev Yashin, who I saw play at wembley was on a par.

    No surprise to learn he was a real gentleman with it.
  • usetobunkin
    usetobunkin Posts: 2,179
    edited February 2019
    When Banksy had a tummy bug, and couldn't play in the 70 World Cup Quarter Final Sir Alf said." if i was going to lose a player why did it have to be him!" Truly World Class! 

    Gordon Banks Goalkeeper, WORLD CUP WINNER, but best of all a gentleman!
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 28,598
  • SporadicAddick
    SporadicAddick Posts: 6,846
    Shook his hand once on the dance floor at a conference somewhere - I said it was a pleasure to meet him, he smiled generously, shook my hand firmly, and thanked me for taking the time to do so. In small moments you can judge the quality of man, and he was quality.

    RIP
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,017
    Legend
  • Addickted2U
    Addickted2U Posts: 3,080
    I played in goal as a kid in the 70s when I started playing football - as is always the case, no one else would! Banks was inspirational all the same.  
    RIP
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973

  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    My maternal grandmother lived in Bexleyheath next door to a Mr & Mrs Banks. My mum's cousin got married on World Cup Final day in 1966, I was just coming up to one year old at the time. So Obviously I don't remember the final but the family talked about it for years at social do's (usually round my Nan's) because it was Val & Franks wedding and stories of my Dad, Grandad, Uncle Charlie et al listening to a tranny in the church and my Aunt Kit singing "Oh When The Saints" at the reception etc planted something in my young mind. To such an extent that I thought that Mr Banks (They did socialise at our events but were always referred to Mr&Mrs Banks) next to my Nan's was Gordon Banks. Why wouldn't I? I'd had these heroes names pummeled into my memory for years and when one of them (he was the only Mr Banks I knew)  lived next door to my Nan it was natural for a 5, 6 or seven year old boy to think such. 
     Gordon Banks - A 24 carat hero and gentleman. 
  • StrikerFirmani
    StrikerFirmani Posts: 2,742
    I don't think there has been a better England goalie since his day also a good ambassador of the game.

    RIP   

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