Eventually I'd like to draw up a Y/A greatest ever team
2007-11-07 21:02:06 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
Schmeichel and Banks have quickly become the frontrunners. Quite rightly. Anyone for Pat Jennings?
2007-11-07 21:13:05 · update #1
Memo to self: Must add Shane R's vote for Banks and Zoff
2007-11-07 23:07:16 · update #2
Looks like Schmeichel is going to join Pele in the Y/A superteam. Will leave the question open for more votes though
2007-11-08 01:28:27 · update #3
Definitely Gordon Banks, the save he made against Pele was fantastic. If you see the footage Pele was so convinced he`d scored that he was walking away.Dino Zoff was great but not as good Banks. A keeper of note was Bert Trautman who played for Man City in the FA Cup with a broken neck, a lesson for the current string of overpaid "Nancy Boys"
2007-11-08 02:21:44 · answer #1 · answered by boy from bali 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
England - Peter Shilton
N.Ireland - Pat Jennings
Scotland - Jim Leighton
Wales - Neville Southall
1960's Gordon Banks
1950's Frank Swift
Europe - Peter Schmeichel, Petr Cech, Dino Zoff, Fabien Barthez, Jens Lehmann
2007-11-07 21:14:03 · answer #2 · answered by Barry K 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter Schmeichel
2007-11-07 21:56:52 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm stunned it took so long for someone to say Neville Southall. Some of the saves he made were unbelieveable. One in particular against Sheffield Wednesday which they used for a few years on MOTD's titles stands out. Jennings was the next best that I saw in the flesh while, judging from the keepers I watched live, I don't even think banks was the best English keeper never mind world I thought Shilton was a much better all round keeper. I never saw yashin play live but by reputation he must be the closest challenger to Southall as for those who have said Schmeichal, you obviously have a very limited range of keepers that you have seen to choose from. the true test of a world class keeper is when he plays in front of an average defence and when Schmeichal did that at Aston Villa and Manchester City he was found wanting. The best foreign keeper I ever saw play was a cass act Russian from the 80s called Rinat Dasaiyev {sorry for poor spelling on some names}
2007-11-07 22:59:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peter Schmeichel or Gordon Banks.
2007-11-07 21:09:10 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Top 5 in the running are Yashin, Zoff, Banks, Shilton & Schmeichel
,..................My vote has to go to Schmeichel - made the occasional blunder but what confidence he gave to his defence. The guy was awesome!!
2007-11-07 21:09:36 · answer #6 · answered by Smarty 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Gordon Banks
2007-11-07 21:05:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's no doubt in my mind that Gordon Banks is the greatest goalkeeper who has ever lived.
His save from Pele's header in the 1970 world cup is easily the greatest I've ever seen, and the great difficulty opposing teams always found in scoring against Banks speaks for itself.
2007-11-07 21:18:18 · answer #8 · answered by Spacephantom 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One and only Peter Schmeichel.
2007-11-07 23:03:13 · answer #9 · answered by spookii 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yashin has to be up there but recently Seaman and Schmiechel would be good company. I also think that Cech is staking a claim and a Mark Crossley, although never an international( to my knowledge) but an expert penalty stopper.
2007-11-08 06:38:24 · answer #10 · answered by john c 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋