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Thread #165676   Message #3976321
Posted By: Steve Shaw
12-Feb-19 - 09:42 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
Guardian: His gravity-defying denial of the Brazil great Pelé’s lunging header at Mexico 1970 became known as the save of the century...

...“As I got to my feet,” Banks later recalled, “Pelé came up to me and patted me on the back. ‘I thought that was a goal,’ he said. ‘You and me both,’ I replied. The TV footage of the game shows me laughing as I turn to take up my position for the corner. I was laughing at what Bobby Moore had just said to me. ‘You’re getting too old Banksy, you used to hold on to them.’ Like hell I did.”