Best Goalkeeper Ever

Gianuigi Buffon for me.

Ray Clemence playing for Liverpool

if its best ever seen then that limits the choice . Shilton for me class act and very underestimated.

Honurable metions to Peter Schmiechel,Jim Montgomery that save!!!, Gary Sprake (made some amazing saves at Anfield) Peter Bonetti not- never forgiven him for 1970 world cup v West Germany)

I thought Gordon Banks but
the more I watched the more
I thought it was Pat Jennings.


Buffon was great, but the games changed
since banks/jennings

And the new Italian keeper Donnarumma looks good
of the current crop,.. Time will tell.

I'm with the above poster - Pat Jennings

Pat Jennings the best i ever seen ...watched him most home games for 5/6 years before he went to Arsenal

Shilton as a youngster at Leicester, unbelievable.

Peter Schmeichel and I'm not even a Utd fan.

Paddy Cullen

Schmiechel.

Best brit Pat Jennings.

They say this chap was the best but I have never seen him playing, apart from on tv.

Lev yashin? He changed the
way goalies played.

1. Lev Yashin
2. Dino Zoff
3. Gordon Banks.

Correct yhtl.

I remember on This Is Your Life for Gordon Banks they said that Mr Yashin had recently lost a leg and couldn`t make it so appeared via a video link. Then near the end he appeared from behind a curtain with Eamonn Andrews saying, "Surprise, surprise Gordon. Lev Yashin has hopped on a plane and is here".

He was a fantastic keeper indeed.

gota have decent name to be a goalie,simon shotstopper is underrated for bognor,chris cleansheet at dover is great

Pat Jennings.
In Scotland it would be Andy Goram.

Andy Goram ...still had the best football chant ever ..'there's only two Andy Goram's

Andy Goram ...still had the best football chant ever ..'there's only two Andy Goram's

Lol

Lol

Oliver Kahn was the best IMO

I would recommend 'The Outsider' by Jonathan Wilson. A brilliant read that covers this subject. Anything by Wilson is a must-read, to be honest.

Andy Goram was a superb keeper ....at 18 he was Oldham's first choice keeper....he got lots of practice in those days.

For me , Peter Shilton in the late 70s early 80s is best keeper I have seen.

As has been said earlier Lev Yashin has to be up there as an all time great.

Jennings was great but surely Schmeichel was just unbelievable and must be the best ever.

close

but his manager let him down

Never saw him play but Bert Trautmann must be one of the all time greats for playing on in that Cup Final with a busted neck

I remember Trautmann in that final so well.  Just an incredible feat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceYW9YpqN10

Was he not a POW during the war and stayed in UK when it finished?

There was a film released at the cinema in 2018 about Bert Trautmann ironically called 'The Keeper' has anyone on here ever seen it?

Yes he was mac.

Bernhard Carl "Bert" Trautmann EK OBE BVO (22 October 1923 – 19 July 2013) was a German professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for Manchester City from 1949 to 1964.

In August 1933, he joined the Jungvolk, the junior section of the Hitler Youth. Trautmann joined the Luftwaffe early in the Second World War, and then served as a paratrooper. He was initially sent to Occupied Poland, and subsequently fought on the Eastern Front for three years, earning five medals, including an Iron Cross. Later in the war, he was transferred to the Western Front, where he was captured by the British as the war drew to a close. As a volunteer soldier, he was classified a category "C" prisoner by the authorities, meaning he was regarded as a Nazi. One of only 90 of his original 1,000-man regiment to survive the war, he was transferred to a prisoner-of-war camp in Ashton-in-Makerfield, Lancashire. Trautmann refused an offer of repatriation, and following his release in 1948 decided to settle in Lancashire, combining farm work with playing goalkeeper for a local football team, St Helens Town.

Performances for St Helens gained Trautmann a reputation as an outstanding goalkeeper, resulting in interest from Football League clubs. In October 1949, he signed for Manchester City, a club playing in the country's highest level of football, the First Division. The club's decision to sign a former Axis paratrooper sparked protests, and 20,000 people attended a demonstration. Over time, he gained acceptance through his performances in the City goal, playing in all but five of the club's next 250 matches.

Named FWA Footballer of the Year for 1956, Trautmann entered football folklore with his performance in the 1956 FA Cup Final. With 17 minutes of the match remaining, Trautmann suffered a serious injury while diving at the feet of Birmingham City's Peter Murphy. Despite his injury, he continued to play, making crucial saves to preserve his team's 3–1 lead. His neck was noticeably crooked as he collected his winner's medal; three days later an X-ray revealed it to be broken.

Trautmann played for Manchester City until 1964, making 545 appearances. After his playing career, he moved into management, first with lower-division sides in England and Germany, and later as part of a German Football Association development scheme that took him to several countries, including Burma, Tanzania and Pakistan. In 2004, he was appointed an honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for promoting Anglo-German understanding through football. Trautmann died at home near Valencia, Spain, in 2013, aged 89.

Yashin revolutionised how goalkeepers played

he is also the only keeper to win the ballon d'or

on the other hand he had a mare at Chile 62 (though he may have had concussion)

Trautmann might have won a world cup medal in 1954 tooo but germany wouldn;t ick players based abroad

A miracle that Germany won it in 1954 as Hungary were easily the best team in the world at that time.

he 1954 FIFA World Cup Final was the final match of the 1954 FIFA World Cup, the fifth World Cup in FIFA history. The game was played at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern, Switzerland, on 4 July 1954, and saw West Germany beat the heavily favoured Golden Team of Hungary 3–2.

The 1954 final is often listed as one of the greatest matches in World Cup history, and also one of its most unexpected upsets. Beyond football, some historians ascribe the match a lasting impact on both German and Hungarian post-World War II history, contributing in West Germany to a sense of regained international recognition after the lost Second World War and denazification, and in Hungary to discontent with the communist-authoritarian regime in the run-up to the 1956 Hungarian revolution. In Germany, the 1954 final is known as the Miracle of Bern (German: Wunder von Bern).

Wasn't there like a 24 stone goalkeeper back in the old days called 'Fatty' Foulke or something similar?

Hungarians wallopped Germany in the group stages...but Germany didn't play their styrongest XI

stories about Germans using drugs in the final

that was the only tournament the magical magyars played in

they didn't enter the 1950 tournament and many of the players had defected by 1958

no european championship back then

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Foulke_(footballer)

I remember when they came to this country at a time when we were unbeaten at Wembley and they thrashed us 6-3 and everyone was saying we would get revenge in a return game in Hungary but we lost 7-1. I was only 6 years old but remember everybody here being totally shocked at the way they beat us.

4. Gianluigi Buffon

Lev Yashin

Not him^^^^

Might be him^^^

I have the program of that match sparrow, one of my grandad's brothers was a coach in Hungary and years later he went to a presentation by Puskas in which he was thanked profusely by the Hungarian F A. Google him "Jimmy Hogan football coach"  not too much said about him because he was Irish but his warm ups were legendary and they looked like a bunch of circus performers prior to the game. They were all doing keep uppys with their own ball. They beat England by getting Billy Wright out of the middle at the back. Wright was told to  stay with him so heguti  (not sure about spelling) dropped deep and Wright followed him to the half way line. Big hole in behind and the rest is history. Lot of people never knew about Jimmy Hogan but he was the first to go over there and learn from them .

" is sometimes credited with the revolution in European football that saw Hungary thrash England 6–3 at Wembley in 1953, ushering in a new football era. After the match, Sándor Barcs,[8] then president of the Hungarian Football Federation, said to the press, "Jimmy Hogan taught us everything we know about football."[9] Gusztáv Sebes, the Hungarian footballer and coach, said of Hogan, "We played football as Jimmy Hogan taught us. When our football history is told, his name should be written in gold letters"

1. The great Dane.  The one that played for the  mancs(blue and red)obvs
2. Before the Irish err thug "accidently" stuck the boot in I thought Per Cech was a great keeper
3.  Manuel Neuer in his pomp he seemed to fill the goal with his bulk

Yasmin didn't use gloves

Interesting that he has them in that photo......

*yashin

Loads of photos on the internet of yashin using gloves, I wonder if he was the first to use them ?

Most images of Yashin on here show him wearing gloves.

Buffon for me ,has to be someone from the last 10-20 years

yesterdays footballers were shockingly poor back then and those old goalies wouldn't stand a chance today  .. but Shilton was always a good watch at his peak ,he won Forest a title  .

Amadeo Raul Carrizo is allegedly the first keeper to use gloves, in Argentina way back in the 1950's.

Schmcheichell senior an honourable mention of the old school

now all the outfield players are wearing gloves even in the middle of a heatwave  ...25c  on one occassion

i blame Michael Jackson

I remember Billy Ritchie (Rangers) wearing a bunnet.

Cheers tiger didn't know that ......was told it years ago but can't find pics of Yashin playing without gloves . Palace had a player wide left who played without shin pads in the eighties, word got round and eventually he changed his ways. Totally illegal now isn't it ?

The myth that England were unbeaten at Wembley until that game is also bollox sparrow.
Saturday, 9 April 1949 Home International Championship 1948-49 (54th) Match England 1 Scotland 3 [0-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley Park, Wembley, Middlesex Kick-off (BST): 3.00pm. Attendance: 98,188.

31 March 1928 - England 1 Scotland 5 [0-2]
Empire Stadium, Wembley (80,868)

Hungary were the first "foreign" team to win at Wembley

1st of many

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7sOY5_lyl8

The next Len Yashin?

Oops Lev.

9 May 1951 - England 2 Argentina 1 [0-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley Park, Wembley (99,000

28 November 1951 - England 2 Austria 2 [0-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley Park, Wembley (100,000

26 November 1952 - England 5 Belgium 0 [2-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley Park, Wembley (68,333)

25 November 1953 - England 3 Hungary 6 [2-4]
Empire Stadium, Wembley Park, Wembley (100,000)

What a fantastic myth .........England unbeaten at Wembley against foreign countries....before the Hungary defeat

Consisted of three games won 2 drawn 1

Beaten all over Europe and the UK as well......... But Hungary were the first ever team to beat them at Wembley WAFLOB

On 21 September 1949 at Goodison Park, Liverpool, the home of Everton, England were defeated 2–0 by Ireland in a friendly international. As a result, Ireland became the first foreign team to beat England at home.

Some of the myths perpetuated by the beautiful game lol

England played a fair few home games against continental sides (Germany, Spain, Italy, Belgium, France)

for some reason these were mostly not played at Wembley, often they weree played at Highnury or White Hart Lane

not sure what the reason was

I suppose you could say "Hungary were the first team other than the Home Nation, and the Irish Free State, to beat England at home"

even the famous game against Italy in 1934 was not played at Wembley

England didn't play all their Home Championship games at Wembley either back then

pretty sure that Ireland team would have been referred to as "Eire" in the match programme

the IFA (Northern Ireland) team was called "Ireland" in all matches until the 1950s, and continued be called "Ireland" in the British Home Championship until the 1970s

Ireland , Scotland and Wales all beat England in the home international championship prior to 1953
They weren't that good a team, they failed to enter the first three world cups and got beat 1-0  by the USA in 1950.
They won at the Olympics with an amateur team in 1908\1912 
The myth would have you believe that the game started in the UK
BUT AGAIN ......there is evidence of football being played  in China, Australia and America before the English came along and started the first  association  and drafted the rules.
All part of the myth "football's coming home"

in 1949 both the FAI (Dublin) and the IFA (Belfast) referred to their teams as "Ireland"

football was invnted in Italy mate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcio_Fiorentino

the romans had a ball game too called harpastum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harpastum

seems like for a long time Wembley was used used only for the annual Scotland game

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Wonder when the forum idiot giupesty  will realise
That if he can't tolerate discussing racism
I won't tolerate discussion with him

The mug has been warned  !   

there are two g's in mugg mate