For just about the last 30 years, English goalkeepers have slipped down the rankings of the
world's best despite the legacy that they bring with them from days gone by. There was a time when
it didn't matter who played in nets for the national team (as long as it wasn't Peter Bonetti!
For just about the last 30 years, English goalkeepers have slipped down the rankings of the
world's best despite the legacy that they bring with them from days gone by. There was a time when
it didn't matter who played in nets for the national team (as long as it wasn't Peter Bonetti!
Moneyball! Coins of Bobby Charlton, Gordon Banks and the offside rule picture
gallery
Giving a new meaning to the term 'moneyball' the Royal Mint has launched a special 50 pence
piece which explains the offside law. The new coin is part of a range of new sporting currency
designed to commemorate the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Got, Not Got: You Too Can Go To Bed With George Best Shock
Now here's an offer you don't get every day it's your chance to hit the sack with 1970s sex god,
boutique owner and noted footballer George Best of Manchester United and Northern Ireland fame.
What's more, Alan Ball, Bobby Moore and Gordon Banks come as a special bonus a dream Christmas gift
for the lady football fan who previously imagined she had everything.
Football Team of the Decade: 1960s - originally posted on Soccerlens.com
The 1960s just might be football's golden decade. George Best, Garrincha, Pele in his prime and
much much more. Recently on the Total Soccer Show podcast, we picked our starting XI from the
1960s. None of of us were alive back then, but thanks to television, YouTube and brilliant books
like Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid, we were able to weigh the various options at
each position and argue out the perfect starting XI to represent 10 of the most glorious years in
the history of the beautiful game.
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- 44 Years Ago Today: QPR's Brilliant League CUp Triumph against Gordon Banks' Leicester City
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Ducky's Note: Readers, please re-welcome Kiran Vr, a
United fan who takes his football very seriously. He's the editor-in-chief of Red Army
India, a blog for all things United and more. After a wonderfully insightful first
post for BFZ, Kiran is back with a wonderfully insightful, well, second
post.
The problem with goalkeepers is that they are a nostalgic breed.
I say "the problem" of course there are many problems with goalkeepers. But here's one. Most
goalkeepers seem to be suckers for a bit of nostalgia.
And that's the thing about goalkeeper glove makes like Reusch and uhlsport.
It's not often in the sport of soccer that you get to watch a game where you badly want
both teams to win, or more accurately in this case, neither team to lose, but coming up this Sunday
afternoon, one of those scenarios occurs in the English Premier League at Old Trafford when League
Champions Man Utd host relegation candidates Blackpool.
One of the most recognizable U.S. soccer institution names worldwide returned from extinction
Thursday when Traffic Sports announced that the Fort Lauderdale Strikers are back. The Strikers
will kick off their first game April 9th against Edmonton in their NASL home opener at Lockhart
Stadium.
Miami FC will hold a press conference today to official rename the team to the Fort Lauderdale
Strikers. The new name may be one of the worst kept secrets ever as the web site and NASL officials
have been calling the team the "Strikers" for several months now. However, it was unclear what form
of that name the team would have because the naming rights for "Fort Lauderdale" Strikers was
already held.
Albert Camus, goal keeper of French Algerian descent.
Famous author and philosopher Albert Camus once said, "All that I know most surely, about the
morality and the obligations of man, I know from sport." His sport of choice? Football of course,
and his chosen position was goal keeper, the place of those odd men who live in a very different
psychological universe than the rest of the players on the field.
Albert Camus, goal keeper of French Algerian descent.
Famous author and philosopher Albert Camus once said, "All that I know most surely, about the
morality and the obligations of man, I know from sport." His sport of choice? Football of course,
and his chosen position was goal keeper, the place of those odd men who live in a very different
psychological universe than the rest of the players on the field.
To listen to some people you would think our promising young reserve ‘keeper is David Seaman,
Peter Schmeichel, Gordon Banks and Lev Yashin all rolled into one.
He's not.
Right now Wojciech Szczesny is a raw, inexperienced player with bags of promise and the
chance of becoming great in the future.
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Eusebio and Gordon Banks at Loftus Road: Enlarged Photo Eusebio vs Banks: Enlarged
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- Audio: Keith Curle Interviewed Today on Talksport (Click to Listen)
- Vaagan Moen on the Official Site
- QPR-India: Two New Youths Coming to Train (Update)
- Three Ex-QPR Birthdays
- News of Ex-QPR Ricky Sappleton: "Lose Weight"
- Three More Managers Axed
- Charlton's New Owner.
