Gordon Banks

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RIP Gordon

Saw him defy us single handedly in the early 70's, never seen a better keeper

One of my treasured childhood possessions is an 'all time greats' football book. Banks is obviously in it, and I remember there was a quote from him saying there were certain clubs that always seemed to put a few past him. West Brom were one who he said had put four or five past him a couple of times.

Coincidentally as I was reading through this I was going to post that although without a doubt he was one of the world greats we did seem to score quite a few against stoke in athlete sixties and early seventies.  Tony Brown particularly always seemed to score against Banks. Brown himself said he always rated goals against Banks as amongst the best he scored because he rated Banks as number 1 in the world.