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[Arriba]

am i the only one who thinks shilton wasn't all that?  by world cup 90 he was shit and blamed his defence for everything conceeded

[Peter Venkman]

I must admit that in '90 he was past his best but still a great keeper IMO, but yes he has made mistakes especially for England...the free kick in '90 and the Poland mistake in '73 but he is still the best keeper I have seen, having never seen Banks play....no keeper in recent years has come close for me.

Now Ray Clemence...he was over rated IMO.

[Crozzer]

I saw Nottingham Forest win the League at Villa Park.  Villa battered them for 89 minutes.  John Robertson broke away and crossed, one nil, Forest League Champions in dead silence in the Holt End.

If Shilton weren't in goal, it would have been easily 3:1 to Villa.  Shilton bossed his area, bossed his defence and bossed the opposition.

[Peter Venkman]

He did have the loudest shout of any keeper I have ever heard...he could be heard from the back of the Town End when it was full.

He marshalled the back four so well, had them very well organised and that was as good a factor as his agility and shot stopping.

He rarely came out for crosses, he always left most of the crosses to the centre halves to deal with as that was their job and his job was to stop shots. When he came out for a punch he very very rarely missed it and if he did it would invariably go out for a throw in near the half way line the amount of power and connection he made on it.

[Crozzer]

I must admit that in '90 he was past his best but still a great keeper IMO, but yes he has made mistakes especially for England...the free kick in '90 and the Poland mistake in '73 but he is still the best keeper I have seen, having never seen Banks play....no keeper in recent years has come close for me.

Now Ray Clemence...he was over rated IMO.

Bank's save against Pele (Mexico 70, I think), absolutely incredible.

Saw Banks play at the C.G., when only had one eye after his car accident.  It was an exhibition game against the Tampa Bay Rowdies.  It was freezing that day, hard on the visitors.  He caught a high cross, and the person behind me in the North Stand, yelled "A blind man could have got that!"

Memo to Swindon goalies, you only need one eye to catch a cross,............ if you are Gordon Banks.

[dell boy]

Banks save against Pele was the best I've ever seen, closely followed by Montgomery's double save in the cup final.

[flammableBen]

It's not the greatest save in the world if it wasn't done with a bottle of wine in one hand.

[dell boy]

It's not the greatest save in the world if it wasn't done with a bottle of wine in one hand.

It's the annual tug-of-war across the brook tomorrow and we will all have a pint in one hand watching those idiots pull across a very flooded stream. This will be followed by the eight-man boat race (pint racing), just a spectator again this year.
Two years ago my pub won with a time of 33 seconds, still a record around my neck of the woods.
If you want to get pissed tonight give it a try, I'm sure you know the rules.

[Don Rogers Shop]

Shay given is better

[chalkies_shorts]

am i the only one who thinks shilton wasn't all that?  by world cup 90 he was shit and blamed his defence for everything conceeded

Arriba - that makes 2 of us. Banks was far superior in every way and he was probably behind Lev Yashin. The last decent keepr England had was Chris Woods - the others including Seaman have been pretty crap.

[nevillew]

Smith,
King,
Duke,
Cook?

Cox?
Penman?

[adje]

What does a duke do?

[chalkies_shorts]

Take your taxes and pisses them up against a wall. Insults everyone they meet which everyone should feel honoured about and if you're in your 80s and Greek then you shag anything you can get your hands on. Duke = Glorified adulterous playboy. I'm jealous.

[adje]

Any vacancies?

[chalkies_shorts]

I would have thuoght one would become avaialble in the next year or so - the bad news is that you'd have to shag the queen once in a while and you'd inherit three imbecile step sons -  one gay -and one adopted grandson - Harry Hewiitt.