I'd forgotten how good a goal scorer he was. He was aided & abetted at Blackburn by the England winger Bryan Douglas, who was also at the peak of his career at that time. RIP Fred.
A great and part of the greatest day in English football. Stoke City stayed in Brid before the quarter final in 1971. The manager enjoyed it that much he brought them back the following year. A local pub team were training on the cliff tops in the evening and the Stoke players walked by. They got talking and some of them said to Banks their kids would have loved to have met him. He told them to get them and he waited, talking to the others, until they came back. He then posed for photographs of their kids taking shots at him.It was only a few months later a car crash cost him his career. Great player, great bloke. RIP.
Sad to hear this news a Great keeper and Gentleman. I still remember being behind him in the South stand when we went two nil up. Was Proud of the lads scoring 2 past him as He was the Greatest keeper of that era.
He said after the Cup game at Stoke the year after the quarter final at BP that Waggy was one player he wouldn't want to face every week. When you look at the prices and wages paid for goalkeepers nowadays it is amazing to think that Leicester paid Chesterfield £7,000 for him.
After the save Pele told Banks he thought it was a great save and that he thought it was a goal. Banks said he thought it was a goal as well. Bobby Moore said to Banks that he must be getting old, you used to catch those.
I have been lucky enough to see him play in the winning world cup final and at Boothferry Park. Certainly, in my eyes one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time. RIP Gordon Banks, you were a gentleman and a credit to the game we love and to mankind.
