Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: MikeL2
Date: 13 Feb 19 - 02:16 PM

Hi

I didn't see him very much as in those days I was still playing rugby, but I was aware of his fantastic talent.

He was a kind man, always prepared to chat with the fans.

He will be remembered for many years.

My thoughts and prayers go to his family and friends,

RIP

MikeL2

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: Will Fly
Date: 13 Feb 19 - 12:53 PM

Known affectionately in the Potteries as "Bonksie". In Staffordshire dialect, the word "bank" is pronounced "bonk", so a pit bank is a "pit bonk" and thus Banks was Bonksie.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 11:27 AM

I can't give a monkey's about football...

But in July 1966 I was a 7 year old schoolboy.. and 'we' won the world cup...!!!

That team were heroes, the stuff of legends....
even better than the Beatles..

..and I was swept up in the excitement and hysteria,
just like any other boy raised on British comics,
eagerly reading stories every week about great British warriors and sportsmen,
that reinforced how great we British - but more specifically, us English - were...
That we were the natural born champions, rulers of everything and everywhere in the World...

Oh well, that proud feeling of innate world beating superiority couldn't last forever...

But as old and cynical as we may have become,
Gordon Banks was one of our real life heroes for that short special time half a century ago...


[Btw.. as an adult militant lefty - avowed foe of British nationalism and xenophobia,
and it's pernicious entrenched breeding ground in football culture,...
I couldn't help getting a bit excited about meeting Bobby Moore when he opened an East London cinema in the 1990s...]

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 09:42 AM

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.”

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: GUEST,Andiliqueur
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 08:43 AM

I saw him many times playing for LCFC at Filbert Street. We were all so proud of our "Banks of England". It was a shame he was never knighted it might have helped him financially.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: Acorn4
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 08:28 AM

He lived to see Leicester City lift the Premier League trophy which must have chuffed him to bits.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 07:54 AM

Very sad. I'm not a big football fan but I know that Gordon was one of the greats. Condolences to his family, friends and fans.

Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: fat B****rd
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 07:37 AM

RIP MR. Banks

Subject: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper
From: GUEST,Denis Heaney
Date: 12 Feb 19 - 05:21 AM

Sad news of the passing of one of my childhood hero's from an era in which this nation was truly great.

Rest in peace.

https://uk.yahoo.com/sports/news/gordon-banks-englands-world-cup-winning-goalkeeper-dies-aged-81-100020305.html