BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers

Subject: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 03:33 PM

Apart from me, that is ~ I was a goalkeeper in my soccer-playing days. So, did you know, was that fine follksinger Noel Murphy?, who I believe played for Ireland schoolboys. He & I kept oppo goals in a scratch kickabout at the Norwich Folk Festival once.

So I collect goalkepers ~ Che Guevara, Arthur Conan Doyle, A H Clough {poet of Say Not The Struggle...), Pope John-Paul II, Roy Hattersley, Albert Camus, all Three Tenors (Jose Carreras signed amateur forms for Barcelona), Vladimir ['Lolita'] Nabokov, Boris Becker {who was offered professional training but opted for tennis after much thought}, 30s World Heavyweight Champion boxer Max Schmelling, Yevtushenko, Iglesias, David Mellor ~~~ and A E Housman's A Shropshire Lad ~ poem 17 begins "Twice a week the winter thorough, Here stood I to keep the goal".

Anyone got any more for me?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Dave MacKenzie
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 03:38 PM

"Edmund MacKenzie of Plockton" (no relation). I remember him in goal for Plockton when they visited Portree.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: SINSULL
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 03:51 PM

I keep seeing "goatkeepers". The only one I can think of is the Lonely Goatherd from the Sound Of Music.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Rasener
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 04:07 PM

Pavorotti gave up the dream of becoming a pro goalkeeper for 7 years of vocal training. What a stupid boy :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Folkiedave
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 06:10 PM

Carreras was clearly a man of sense.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Rapparee
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 07:37 PM

St. Peter is a famous goalkeeper....

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: TheSnail
Date: 18 Feb 10 - 08:24 PM

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Niels Bohr, goal keeper and his brother Harald a mathematician who played in the Danish Olympic team.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: G-Force
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 06:13 AM

David Icke.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MikeL2
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 06:21 AM

Hi

He had help from on high....lol

cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: GUEST,Steamin' Willie
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 06:31 AM

Alan Shearer, Vinny Jones, David Hirst.

Ok, they are famous outfielders, but all were good enough to slip the jersey on when needed.

(Vinny did so for Wimbledon against Sheff Wed and let two goals in.)

Err, this isn't what you were looking for, is it?

Ron Wood fancied himself as a goalie in his formative years, if that helps.....

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 07:01 AM

Julio Iglesias. (Well, he's famous to some people, but not for me).

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 07:07 AM

BWM ~ I know ~ you will find him in my OP list. But thanx just the same.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 08:00 AM

D'oh!!

Note to self - "Must learn to read lists in full"!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Acorn4
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 09:15 AM

That famous Benny Hill creation - Hugh Jarse!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 10:18 AM

Why has everyone forgotten Sylvester Stallone!!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MikeL2
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 10:23 AM

hi

What about David Bradley.

Who is he I hear you ask.

Well David was the boy who had the kestrel in that great film Kes.

There is a great scene when the teacher forces him to play football against his wishes.

Very funny.....might have got in goal for Arsenal though.

cheers

mike

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 11:26 AM

My last name translates from the Dutch as "Goalie."

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Edthefolkie
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 12:33 PM

My cousin Peter! N*ttingh*m F*r*st.

NOT Peter Shilton incidentally.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 19 Feb 10 - 06:22 PM

The Teacher was Brian Glover, sometime teacher ( though not P.E.) professional wrestler and TV personality. Hilarious sequence in the film. When, later, I taught games in a large boys school, the school team players for Rugby, Hockey and Football formed squads...the remainder were consigned to 'Kes' football.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MikeL2
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 05:58 AM

Hi tug

Yes you are right about Brian Glover.

He was a great character. He did some serious acting too. Can't think offhand what plays he did but I fancy one at least was a TV adaptation of a Dickens work.

Kes is one of my all-time favourite films. And David Bradley who played Billy is still often seen in many TV dramas.

Cheers

MikeL2

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: The Sandman
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 06:37 AM

Dick Miles,he wasnt a very good goal keeper,but he spent sometime in the sticks,and between the sticks.
he once played against the wilson family,and nearly kept a clean sheet.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 08:42 AM

Welcome to the fraternity, Dick. Didn't I always say what a good egg you were!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 11:03 AM

Drifting only slightly, Canadian lawyer, author, and politician Ken Dryden has blocked a few shots in his day.

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Neil D
Date: 20 Feb 10 - 12:34 PM

Hakeem Olajuwon

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 21 Feb 10 - 11:35 AM

So, now - to sum up: — Pontiffs (the last Pope) to leading terrorists & revolutionaries (Che) ~~~ Is there anything, I wonder, that makes people goalkeepers? Or is it just a sort of rub·of·the·green[jersey] thing that happens to some ~ like me, & the creator of Sherlock Holmes, & all three of the world's leading tenors? Or brilliant novelists who add words like 'nymphet' to the language [Nabokov]; or Existential philosophical novelists {Camus}?

& would our lives have been different if we had been strikers; or full-backs ~ or even never made it into the 1st XI at all? Who knows?

Goalkeepers, unite!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: Long Firm Freddie
Date: 22 Feb 10 - 07:19 AM

Goalkeepers definitely are different.

I'm a paid up member of the Goalkeepers Union (Retired).

All sorts of interesting stuff here: Goalies

LFF

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 02:39 AM

Yes, LFF: It is generally admitted we are different ~ there is a well-known collection of shoret stories called Goalkeepers Are Crazy (1964) by the distinguished novelist & sports journalist Brian Glanville. But wherein precisely lies the difference, or the 'craziness', would you [or any other interested Catter] like to say?

Subject: RE: BS: Famous men who have been goalkeepers
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 23 Feb 10 - 11:30 AM

Hello Edthefolkie. Was your cousin Peter Wells? He was a good goalie for Forest (my team) but unlucky to be there at the same time as Peter Shilton. I believe he went to Southampton eventually. Burl