southbankbornnbred 2:33 Fri Apr 24
Best keeper you ever saw play live - and why?
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C'mon, be honest - unpopular views more than welcome.
Mine is not that unpopular, but I would say that Big Neville Southall was above any other keeper I watched across a number of years. Including Peter Schmeichel, who was quite brilliant.
Why? Every time I saw him play, Nev would produce at least one save in the game that I genuinely thought was "world class". Did it every single time. Schmeichel runs him a close second. Both were better than Shilton, who was still very, very good.
Was too young to see Banks play live. Had the good fortune to watch Buffon a few times in Italy, but I feel that's me cheating a bit. That guy was top class.
But Nev every time.
Thoughts, ladies and gents...
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Son of Sam
2:45 Fri Apr 24
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Bats-man Joel Bats , a great keeper and decent fella loved by the home fans at PSG for many seasons in the 80s-90s, saw him play hundreds of times and rarely a howler if any. Beat cancer as well and released a hilariously bad album.and was man of the match in that cracker against brazil in the world cup
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Far Cough
2:46 Fri Apr 24
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Lev Yashin and Gordon Banks for me
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gph
2:46 Fri Apr 24
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Gordan Banks.
Not for his save against Hurst (I was there, but mistimed my jump to see Hurst's penalty hit the back of the net, so I didn't see the save instead - just saw the back of loads of people who did jump at the right time)
But he made plenty of other saves against us.
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gph
2:47 Fri Apr 24
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Gordon's lesser known brother...
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southbankbornnbred
2:51 Fri Apr 24
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Cough - you saw Yashin play live?
I mean, at the match?
That's good going, that, fella.
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Far Cough
2:52 Fri Apr 24
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No not at the ground live but on the TV live, does that count?
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southbankbornnbred
2:54 Fri Apr 24
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No. But given that it is Yashin, and the big fella couldn't leave the USSR, I'll give you it!
Have seen footage of him and he looked absolutely incredible.
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Steady
2:58 Fri Apr 24
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Best performance I saw live was Ludo away to Sheff Weds about 1990, game ended 1-1 and we should have been 6-0 down at half time
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ted fenton
2:59 Fri Apr 24
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Jennings Parkes Schmeichel Seaman
Banks for me I was at West Ham when he saved that Pen from Hurst and that world class save against Pele was just unreal !!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ROYiM4-CF8
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Far Cough
2:59 Fri Apr 24
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He did leave the USSR for the '58 '62 and '66 world cups, the one held in England was when I became aware of him
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Far Cough
3:00 Fri Apr 24
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Oh and he's the only keeper to win the Ballon d'Or
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southbankbornnbred
3:02 Fri Apr 24
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Oh yeah, World Cups aside, of course.
Would love to have seen the guy play live. He looked well ahead of his years, in terms of his physicality and agility - same as Banks.
Also, to be blunt, probably the coolest looking goalkeeper in that black kit with the baggy black cap. That's a proper look, that. And no need for a dodgy David James-style barnet!
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Far Cough
3:05 Fri Apr 24
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150 penalty saves for Yashin in pro football
FMOBs
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North Bank
3:07 Fri Apr 24
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Ruud Boffin EOT
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southbankbornnbred
3:13 Fri Apr 24
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Steady - I was at that game, too. And you're right: Ludo didn't just keep us in it - we had no right to be in it. He was incredible that day.
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only1billybonds
3:14 Fri Apr 24
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Banks. Probably the one area in the game where era's dont really matter. He had tremendous agility and was stupidly brave when he had to be.
He was that good that i can forgive him for being the first person to break my heart when he saved Sir Geoff's penalty in the lge cup semi in 72.
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Far Cough
3:15 Fri Apr 24
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Any votes for the Scorpion?
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Northern Sold
3:16 Fri Apr 24
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Yeah Nev Southall for a couple of seasons was just immense... normally against us as well...
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Tomshardware
3:20 Fri Apr 24
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Southall was top notch.
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Any Old Iron
3:21 Fri Apr 24
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As a nine year old my dad took me to see England play the Rest of the World at Wembley in '63.
So I was privileged to see the two greatest keepers in my lifetime on the pitch at the same time - Banks and Yashin.
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