| Watching this montage has me thinking 14:02 - Oct 26 with 1986 views | GlasgowBlue |
Peter Shilton signed for a newly promoted Forest in 1977. Anyone else think that had we, as a regular Top 4 side, signed him we would have won so many more trophies under Sir Bobby?
No disrespect to Paul Cooper, who I idolised as a kid, but Shilton was on another level. |  |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:07 - Oct 26 with 1927 views | Keno |
we didn't sign Pat Jennings, £50k was considered too much |  |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:08 - Oct 26 with 1926 views | Beckets |
Best keeper I’ve ever seen by some distance. His performance for Leicester on the opening day of 1973/4 season against us the best individual performance by a keeper I’ve ever seen as well. |  | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:17 - Oct 26 with 1879 views | PJH |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:07 - Oct 26 by Keno |
we didn't sign Pat Jennings, £50k was considered too much |
Pat Jennings was the best keeper that I have ever seen and will remain the biggest 'what might have been' for me.
Having the best goalkeeper in the world in our team would not have done any harm for a few years. |  | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:18 - Oct 26 with 1863 views | NthQldITFC |
Not knocking him at all, but a lot of those saves were a bit, shall we say, Hollywood. A lot were brilliant too. What was his distribution and his command of the box and handing of crosses like. Bit too young to really remember.
One thing going against him is that there was no ready-made rhyming superlative that preceded his surname. |  |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:27 - Oct 26 with 1823 views | hoppy |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:17 - Oct 26 by PJH |
Pat Jennings was the best keeper that I have ever seen and will remain the biggest 'what might have been' for me.
Having the best goalkeeper in the world in our team would not have done any harm for a few years. |
I was thinking Pat Jennings is the one we should've got. |  |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:29 - Oct 26 with 1821 views | PhilTWTD |
Sir Bobby did try to sign him but his move to Forest was already well down the line. Shilts himself told us that on Life's a Pitch once a few years back. |  | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:45 - Oct 26 with 1738 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:29 - Oct 26 by PhilTWTD |
Sir Bobby did try to sign him but his move to Forest was already well down the line. Shilts himself told us that on Life's a Pitch once a few years back. |
Interesting. Never knew that. What a sliding doors moment. | |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:49 - Oct 26 with 1726 views | Fixed_It |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:27 - Oct 26 by hoppy |
I was thinking Pat Jennings is the one we should've got. |
Yep. And Burley's header in the FA Cup Final would have gone in if it wasn't for Jennings. Would have saved a lot of angst! |  |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 15:01 - Oct 26 with 1702 views | gainsboroughblue |
Shilton in his prime was superb.
He was unfortunately a bit past it at his last World Cup. Just thinking of the five German penalties he got nowhere near (not that you can blame a keeper for a penalty shoot out loss), the Breheme free-kick and the mistake in the third place game with Italy. |  |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 15:10 - Oct 26 with 1675 views | farkenhell |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:17 - Oct 26 by PJH |
Pat Jennings was the best keeper that I have ever seen and will remain the biggest 'what might have been' for me.
Having the best goalkeeper in the world in our team would not have done any harm for a few years. |
Agree 100%
Edit to add - I think I read somewhere that his hands were a foot (in length) from outstretched thumb to outstretched little finger. I'm a fairly big chap. Just measured mine - 8 and a half inches.
(and to anyone who might have misunderstood, sadly I'm not talking about another part of the body!) [Post edited 26 Oct 2022 15:16]
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:13 - Oct 26 with 1604 views | chicoazul |
And he now goes out with Lucan’s ex! Or something like that. |  |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:34 - Oct 26 with 1561 views | floridablue |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 15:10 - Oct 26 by farkenhell |
Agree 100%
Edit to add - I think I read somewhere that his hands were a foot (in length) from outstretched thumb to outstretched little finger. I'm a fairly big chap. Just measured mine - 8 and a half inches.
(and to anyone who might have misunderstood, sadly I'm not talking about another part of the body!) [Post edited 26 Oct 2022 15:16]
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Ha, because of this post I've just measured mine... hand span that is! Me, a little old scrawny guy and mine spans a whopping 9 1/4 inches. Back to Shilton, who I thought was an excellent keeper and I was there at Wembley stadium early 70s when he made a fabulous one-handed save, shown many times, I think from Daglish in the game against Scotland that England won 1-0. | | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:39 - Oct 26 with 1532 views | PhilTWTD |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 14:07 - Oct 26 by Keno |
we didn't sign Pat Jennings, £50k was considered too much |
PJ wanted to stay living in the London area and only coming down a couple of times a week to train, which put Sir Bobby off the move. | | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:44 - Oct 26 with 1514 views | Keno |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:39 - Oct 26 by PhilTWTD |
PJ wanted to stay living in the London area and only coming down a couple of times a week to train, which put Sir Bobby off the move. |
I didnt know that and the decision not to sign him m makes more sense
In Sir Bob we trusted | |
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| Watching this montage has me thinking on 17:42 - Oct 26 with 1410 views | Sharkey |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:39 - Oct 26 by PhilTWTD |
PJ wanted to stay living in the London area and only coming down a couple of times a week to train, which put Sir Bobby off the move. |
That's old-school, saying come 'down' to E.Anglia from London. 'Cos London was always 'up', even if you lived in the north. |  | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 19:20 - Oct 26 with 1274 views | MillsyVOR |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:13 - Oct 26 by chicoazul |
And he now goes out with Lucan’s ex! Or something like that. |
Think a few of us have known Steph 😬 |  | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 19:51 - Oct 26 with 1212 views | michaeldownunder |
Strange that Shilton did not sign for us as Newmarket is close by and he "enjoyed' race tracks !!!! |  | | |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 20:12 - Oct 26 with 1146 views | Nthsuffolkblue |
| Watching this montage has me thinking on 16:39 - Oct 26 by PhilTWTD |
PJ wanted to stay living in the London area and only coming down a couple of times a week to train, which put Sir Bobby off the move. |
And is a reminder that, had a player signed for us, they might not have been the same player as they turned out to be in a different team with different coaches in a different location. |  |
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