Gordon Banks: World Cup Winning Goalkeeper Dies Aged 81

[6Foot2]

Link: Gordon Banks: World Cup winning goalkeeper dies aged 81 [bBC Sport]

[bossman]

RIP a true gent of the sport and a truly amazing keeper....

[6Foot2]

RIP a true gent of the sport and a truly amazing keeper....

I didn't know him, but he did seem really 'nice' ('Nice' because I want to use another word, but I can't think of one I'd be happy with.)

[witch]

He did seem to be a very genuine sort of man, yes.

 

Weirdly this has brought back my childhood which is so long ago that I thought Gordon was long dead. My mum, who would have been 89 this year had she lived, loved him even though we were a rugby family. She liked his little monkey face

[HarryMonkey]

A Leicester City legend

[ass17]

Loved in Stoke too, a cult figure and loved to watch the potters when he could. RIP Gordon..

[AJWhite1970]

As a fully paid up member of the Number 1 Union myself, he was way ahead of his time. His positional awareness and reading of the game were and still are a lesson to many modern keepers, he maybe wasn't as agile as some of the top keepers these days (Pele save apart, you can't possibly have a spine to have saved that one!!) but he didn't have to be, like Shilton, Clemence and Schmeichel since, being in the right place at the right time made it look far easier than it actually is.

 

Never met him personally but have seen many interviews with him over the years and he appeared a genuinely nice man.

RIP

[HarryMonkey]

 

This just illustrates what a gent he was.