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THE MAGAZINE FOR THE GOALKEEPING PROFESSION £4.50 TM AUTUMN 2011 Craig GORDON SAVE OF THE SEASON? The greatest saves of all time GK1 looks at the top 5 saves in the history of the game Coaching Corner The art of saving penalties Equipment Exclusive interviews with: Precision, Uhlsport & Sells Goalkeeper Products Gordon Banks OBE Gary Bailey Kid Gloves Kasper Schmeichel The stars of the future On the Move Also featuring: Summary of the latest GK transfers Alex McCarthy, Reading FC John Ruddy, Norwich City Business Pages Alex Smithies, Huddersfield Town Key developments affecting the professional ‘keeper Bob Wilson OBE Welcome to The magazine exclusively for the professional goalkeeping community. Welcome to the Autumn edition of suppliers, coaches and managers alike we are Editor’s note GK1 – the magazine exclusively for the proud to deliver the third issue of a magazine professional goalkeeping community. dedicated entirely to the art of goalkeeping. Andy Evans / Editor-in-Chief of GK1 and Chairman of World In Motion ltd After a frenetic summer of goalkeeper GK1 covers the key elements required of transfer activity – with Manchester a professional goalkeeper, with coaching United, Liverpool, Chelsea and features, equipment updates, a summary Tottenham amongst those bolstering of key transfers and features covering the their goalkeeping ranks – our latest uniqueness of the goalkeeper to a football edition of GK1 brings you a full and team. The magazine also includes regular comprehensive round-up of all the features ‘On-the-Move’, summarising all the ‘keepers who made moves in the Summer latest transfers involving the UK’s professional 2011 transfer window. We also catch goalkeepers; ‘Kid Gloves’, promoting the up with legendary goalkeepers Gordon country’s up-and-coming goalkeeping Banks OBE and Bob Wilson OBE, and give starlets; ‘Outside the box’, focusing on life after our verdict on the five greatest saves football, and many other goalkeeper specific of all time. We bring you an exclusive topics. In ‘The Business Pages’, GK1 offers a interview with John Ruddy - one of summary of the key developments – legal, just 4 English goalkeepers to start for contractual and administrative - to affect the a Premier League club on the season’s professional goalkeeper. GK1 is a magazine opening weekend – and sit down with for the goalkeeping profession. We actively four of England’s brightest goalkeeping encourage your contribution, so please feel prospects, underlining that despite a free to contact us with your suggestions as to current shortage of home-grown Premier how we can improve YOUR magazine. League GK talent, the future of England GK1 Magazine is published by World in goalkeeping is in safe hands. Motion ltd, a leading global management With the endorsement of the leading company and the UK’s foremost agency for players, key brands, glove and equipment professional goalkeepers. CONTENTS How did he do that? 4 Well done Bob 20 GK1 Management, Chancery House, The greatest saves of all time Bob Wilson’s charity bike ride 1 Lochaline Street, London, W6 9SJ Exclusive Interview: 6 On the move 22 Safe as the Banks of England All the latest transfer news [email protected] Gordon Banks Kid Gloves 26 Tel: +(44) 208 741 6060 Coaching corner 10 The stars of the future www.gk1.co.uk Featuring: Where are they now? 30 Science fiction or science fact - Ian Feuer Publisher: World In Motion ltd an indispensible guide to saving The Business Pages 31 Editor-in-Chief: Andy Evans a spot kick Featuring: Deputy Editor: Charlie McNicholas Learning the trade - just4keepers Neil Doncaster - crucial SPL vote News in brief 15 Outside the box 32 Commercial Editor: William Exclusive Interview: 16 Ex-England stopper Gary Bailey Pethybridge Ruddy brilliant Essential Equipment 36 Features Editor: Rob Dakin John Ruddy The latest goalkeeping products Design: Tim Alexander Paradise found 18 Precision Goalkeeping 38 Matt Jones with Kasper Schmeichel AUTUMN 2011 3 headquarters striker Rivaldo. Ridiculous really. www. more than three yards out. Goal? With the and as per youtube.com/watch?v=iieYg7Sm8FM Scottish keeper stranded following the GK1 usual, opinions penalty box pinball you’d have thought were flying back and forth across the Peter Schmeichel: Rapid so. Yet with the Bolton fans starting to office as to the greatest save of all time. Vienna v Manchester United, celebrate, the mighty Scot managed to Prompted by Craig Gordon’s miraculous 4 Champions League, 1996 incredibly stretch a giant arm backwards, save for Sunderland against Bolton, we were Similar in several ways to our put it under the ball, and scoop the ball extolling the virtues of a host of famous winner. Schmeichel pulled off a save to out from under the bar. www.youtube. saves, some old, some new. rank alongside Banks’ legendary stop com/watch?v=PqAmG3xK9_Y Enter, GK1 editor Andy Evans to restore from Pele in the World Cup in 1970 as order before concluding there’s only one United beat Rapid Vienna 2-0 to go into Jim Montgomery: Sunderland v solution! the quarter finals of the European Cup. He Leeds United, FA Cup Final 1973 And so to kick off your latest edition, GK1 went down to his right and defied logic 2 Jim’s effort would have to come has surveyed a group of top goalkeeping by scooping the ball up and somehow close to winning, were this a coaches to bring you the Top Five jaw- over the bar from Rapid’s Rene Wagner. ‘double-save’ competition. The first save is How dropping, eye-bulging, gravity-defying Banks once said: “It was as good as mine good, but the second has near paranormal saves of all time. against Pele.’’ Sorry Gordon, but our qualities. Commentator Brian Moore takes judges beg to differ! www.youtube.com/ a while to realise it’s not a goal. Monty’s (In reverse order:) watch?v=UZvJ8GT73rM efforts coupled with Ian Porterfield’s goal Gregory Coupet: Barcelona v combined to cause one of the great FA Cup Lyon, Champions League, 1999 Craig Gordon: Sunderland upsets of all time. www.youtube.com/ 5 After just two minutes at the Nou v Bolton, Premier League watch?v=PZmFoo4payA Camp the Lyon keeper pulled 3 December 2010 out one of the all-time great stops as he With just a few seconds left Gordon Banks. England v Brazil first acrobatically headed an unintended at the end of the first half Bolton won World Cup 1970 did he lobbed backpass by a defender onto his a corner. Gary Cahill headed into the 1 Turn the page for more… own crossbar, and then immediately parried danger area before Zat Knight smacked www.youtube.com/ do that? a close header by the arriving Barcelona a shot towards a gaping goal from little watch?v=ngE9RCAdWaE GK1 asks a select group of the nation’s top goalkeeping coaches for their Top 5 great saves of all time. Craig Gordon’s wonder save against Bolton, December 2010 AUTUMN 2011 5 in! But as soon as I realised I’d kept it out, EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Gordon Banks I knew I’d done something a bit different,” says the typically modest Yorkshireman. Hot and Bothered “Everything that day was in Brazil’s favour. It was a midday kick off. The only shadows were around your feet and it was 102 degrees Safe as the out on a rock-hard pitch. In the team-talk, Alf (Ramsey) told us to keep possession and hold off from sprinting until the final third otherwise we’d be dead by half time.” From the start, Banks watched on as the World Cup holders struggled to cope Banks of with the flair and pace of the tournament favourites, Brazil. Yet even prior to that great day, the Brazilians had the upper-hand, thanks to some under-hand tactics from the locals. Banks with Brazil legend Pele “Brazil had been in town for a couple of that little fella Tostão was unmarked on the 73-year-old, who now travels to Liverpool to England weeks, handing out little flags, meeting and near post!” sit on the weekend Pools Panel. greeting the locals,” recalls Banks, who kept Like so many great keepers, Banks relied on “Because I was diving backwards, the During England’s glory years, the No1 jersey belonged to Gordon for his country on 73 occasions. his positional instincts, making his way across bottom half of my body swung around Banks OBE. For some, possibly the game’s finest exponent of the art of “And the night before the game, local the goalmouth in the blink of an eye as Pele and I ended up facing almost backwards... fans stopped the traffic outside our hotel at rose to send a bullet header goalwards. and that’s when I saw the ball bouncing goalkeeping. Banks has received endless accolades - not to mention about 2am and of course all the car horns The reason why this awe-inspiring effort away. a World Cup winners’ medal - but he knows he’ll always be best started. It took the police a couple of hours seemingly never grows old has much to do “Moore-o (Bobby Moore) came and remembered not for one season, one tournament or even one game - but to restore peace and quiet by which time we with the need for anticipation. It wasn’t a clipped me on the top of the head. Tostão were all wide awake! Then they came back knee-jerk instinctive save from a point-blank had his hands in the air then started for one save...that just happened to be the greatest save of all time! again and did the same thing.” shot.