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12 Feb 19 - 05:21 AM (#3976273) Subject: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: GUEST,Denis Heaney 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 |
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12 Feb 19 - 07:37 AM (#3976291) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: fat B****rd RIP MR. Banks |
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12 Feb 19 - 07:54 AM (#3976295) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: Dave the Gnome 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. |
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12 Feb 19 - 08:28 AM (#3976303) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: Acorn4 He lived to see Leicester City lift the Premier League trophy which must have chuffed him to bits. |
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12 Feb 19 - 08:43 AM (#3976309) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: GUEST,Andiliqueur 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. |
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12 Feb 19 - 09:42 AM (#3976321) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: Steve Shaw 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.” |
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12 Feb 19 - 11:27 AM (#3976351) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: punkfolkrocker 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...] |
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13 Feb 19 - 12:53 PM (#3976531) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: Will Fly 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. |
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13 Feb 19 - 02:16 PM (#3976551) Subject: RE: Obit: Gordon Banks England goalkeeper From: MikeL2 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 |