Gordon Banks and Pelé

[Gordon Bank's death] encourages us to remember the afternoon when he and the greatest player of all time brought the best out of each other in the Mexican sunshine, two men from the working classes of different continents sharing a moment in which they played the game like angels, and in which Gordon Banks achieved immortality.

Richard Williams (The Guardian)

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