R.I.P Gordon Banks

(12-02-2019 13:05 )Tractor boy Wrote:  England's greatest ever keeper, and another member of the nation's world cup winning side gone.

RIP Gordon

Who are the only ones left now?

Sir Bobby Charlton, Sir Geoff Hurst, I think Nobby Stiles is but very ill, Martin Peters, Roger Hunt, George Cohen, and a few others that didn't make the squad. Sad to hear of the passing of Gordon Banks, I was born before the World Cup in May so I never saw it(same with the moon landing) but by a staggering coincidence my 50th birthday Lunch was held at the Hendon Hall Hotel, where the England squad stayed before the game and there is a nice picture of the whole squad outside one of the big halls there-or there was until it closed last year.

(12-02-2019 18:53 )GreenMachine Wrote:  Sir Bobby Charlton, Sir Geoff Hurst, I think Nobby Stiles is but very ill, Martin Peters, Roger Hunt, George Cohen, and a few others that didn't make the squad. Sad to hear of the passing of Gordon Banks, I was born before the World Cup in May so I never saw it(same with the moon landing) but by a staggering coincidence my 50th birthday Lunch was held at the Hendon Hall Hotel, where the England squad stayed before the game and there is a nice picture of the whole squad outside one of the big halls there-or there was until it closed last year.

Whderevdr that picture is now it would be v valuable

Today was Gordon's funeral at Stoke Minster.
The surviving team of 66 & past England goalkeepers were present and the keepers from Gordon's clubs plus Joe Hart were the pallbearers