STOKE-ON-TRENT (REUTERS) - Crowds of mourning fans associated luminaries of English football for a unlimited farewell on Monday (March 4) to Gordon Banks, a steelworker's son who became one of the world's greatest goalkeepers and will be remembered for his miraculous save next to Pele.Teammates from England's 1966 World cup win and members of former clubs Stoke and Leicester came to belong to a cortege from the Stoke stadium to the funeral for Banks, who died aged 81 last month."He was correspondingly humble, honest to God, he didn't in point of fact understand what he had achieved in dynamism and why people made such a fuss of him," pal Terry Conroy, who starred with Banks and scored in Stoke's 1972 League cup win, told Reuters. Banks was best known for the astonishing one-handed save from a Pele bullet header that bounced awkwardly in tummy of him during England's group-stage game next to Brazil at the 1970 World cup in Mexico."With the luck of the gods, the angle at which I'd managed to raise that ball was perfect, and it ballooned in the let breathe and over the bar," the understandable Banks said in one of the many recountings begged by fans and the media.Footage shows Banks chuckling afterwards, as England's Bobby Moore jokingly chides him for not catching the ball. His achievements went far-off extra than stopping Pele. 
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Banks won 73 international caps, played approximately 500 time for Leicester and Stoke and won two League Cups, past a car wreck blinded him in one eye.He remained in Stoke, a former mining and pottery city, where he would watch games, attend organization events and believe a weekly walk circular Trentham Gardens."He donated his tie to a organization event I was working in and we raised 200 (S$358.44). Such a gentleman," reminisced Phillip Steele, 76, adjacent to a statue of Banks at the hilltop stadium ornamented in flags, scarves and flowers.Favourite saves
Some 2,000 fans were at the stadium to watch achievement on a huge screen. Others lined the route of the funeral procession, which was to stop external the antiquated Victoria ring where Banks plied his trade past ending at Stoke Minster for a religious service.Goalkeepers Jack Butland, Joe Hart and Kasper Schmeichel were to be pall-bearers. Fellow World cup winners Bobby Charlton and Geoff Hurst were as well as expected.In a largely working-class city obsessed with football, Banks was viewed as a reminder of simpler days past the Premier League's mega-millions.Everyone had their favourite save."Mine was a penalty he stopped next to Geoff Hurst at Stoke's 1972 League cup semi-final at West Ham," Conroy said. "If he hadn't saved that, we wouldn't have been in the unlimited and won our first trophy in more than 100 years."Banks used to choose out a 1963 FA cup semi-final with Leicester scored with their by yourself shot on wish even if he by yourself thwarted fortuitous after fortuitous for Liverpool.Born in the northern city of Sheffield, Banks worked as a coal packer and apprentice bricklayer as a juvenile past an inauspicious begin at Chesterfield's reserves: he allow in 122 goals in the 1954-55 season. After military service, he got a first-team settlement at Chesterfield - for 7 a week.Anecdotes from Banks' dynamism say of a every other time to that of today's cosseted players. past kick-off at the 1966 World cup semi-final, he ran out of the cement he used to chew to generate spit for his hands - correspondingly the England trainer popped out of Wembley and down the road to purchase some from a news kiosk just in time to stave off Banks' panic.
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