WE GO AGAIN
KEVIN MCCALLUM: How Pele helped Gordon Banks reach greatness with that World Cup save
The death of the English goalkeeper this week brought back memories of an extraordinary contest
I found my copy of Pele: the Autobiography and my copy of The Rough Guide to Elvis yesterday morning. The King in front of the king. Beside them was You’re not singing anymore, a book about football chants by the perfectly named Adrian Thrills. The Rough Guide cost me R40 and nothing for Pele’s book as it was a review copy sent by the publisher. I also didn’t pay for You’re not singing anymore as I nicked it from the office at my previous employer many, many years ago. It is inscribed “Shaun Johnson, London, 1998”, which means it once belonged — and still belongs, if I’m to be honest (which, obviously, I wasn’t 20 years ago) — to the founding editor of The Sunday Independent. Perhaps I’ll give it back to him one day, but, then again, it is a cracker of a book, so, well, perhaps not. I dragged out the Pele book because Gordon Banks, the England goalkeeper, died this week at the age of 81. He was one of the greats of the game, a player who was the best goalkeeper of his generation, wh...
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