Source: TheGuardian
Gordon Banks: crowds pay tribute to 'greatest English goalkeeper'
Funeral in Stoke-on-Trent remembers ‘modest family man’ despite achievementsThousands of football fans, families and schoolchildren have lined the streets of Stoke-on-Trent to celebrate the life of Gordon Banks, one of the world’s greatest goalkeepers and the “supreme gentleman of football”.The Staffordshire city came to a standstill as crowds gathered to applaud Banks’s funeral cortege as it travelled from the club’s stadium to Stoke Minster on Monday afternoon. Continue reading......read full article
