"Big Pat" - Pat Jennings, Super Keeper (Part_04)

Final part of this upload of a documentary in tribute to Pat Jennings! Hope you enjoyed it! Let me know if you did!

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[BozTheBass]

41 year old West Ham fan. As a kid there were 3 goalies of note: Shilton, Clemence and Jennings. Shilton and Clemence were text book goalkeepers, but Pat made up his own style....diving feet first, saving many with his legs or whatever part of his body he could get in the way of the ball, one handed catches...utterly brilliant. Maybe Schmeichel was the closest as far as being brilliant yet unorthadox. But what always struck me about Pat even as a kid is he seemed like such a nice, nice man.

[lyndonjones]

@BozTheBass Big Pat all through his sporting life and personal life has been the epitome of calmness and well aware of his capabilities, he showed by his saves that goal keeping came natural to him.

Thanks for viewing. Keep an eye out for some top class goal scoring from days gone by!!

[benidorm1690]

Great memories. Best Northern Ireland player ever. Was at the Northern Irteland v Morocco game on April 23rd 1986 when he became the most capped international player ever.

Simply the best

[lyndonjones]

Pat deserves his place in the history books, no doubt about it!

[twosonya]

Thanks very much for posting all these videos, they're excellent! Pat is the greatest goalkeeper I have ever seen and I was lucky to see him play for the Spurs during all his time at WHL. I Actually started watching the Gunners when he signed for them and was still a legend there as well - The Biggest mistake Spurs mad to let him go. So happy he has been GK Coach and Hospitality working. He is a truly wonderful man and had a major impact upon my sporting life...!

[lyndonjones]

Yep it is great to see Pat still involved with Spurs, he was treated badly by Spurs at the time BUT he will always be a Spurs man!

[arbutus27]

Terrific memories. I remember Spurs signing him from Watford - a team who produced a few top players in that era, including Dennis Bond, Marvin Hinton (I believe), There seemd to be so many excellent keepers then: Bonetti, Stepney, Banks... and the often overlooked John Jackson at Crystal Palace who I think was one of the best never to play at international level.

Yep, thanks for the upload matey

[mmjmcdonald]

Just got back from Milan where I met the great man. My hero.What a great man! Thanks Pat.

[Mabfis]

Great man , Great Goalkeeper

[clackarelli]

I love this man. My one true sporting hero.

[MisAnnThorpe]

@BozTheBass As a Leyton Orient supporter of the same age, I seem to recall the old 1st Division being full of good English goalkeepers. Apart from Joe Corrigan, who was never quite in the same class as the aforementioned keepers, there was also Jimmy Rimmer at Villa & Paul Cooper at Ipswich, Phil Parkes (WHU & QPR) & Tony Godden WBA. Slightly different from nowadays, where Joe Hart is miles ahead of any other English keeper. Am still wondering how Cappello hadn't realised that by the World Cup!

[davidw7890]

A lovely man. I still treasure the autograph 40 years on!  No better keeper.

[rebekahlucy1]

Undoubtably the goalkeeper there has ever been!

[gonzoarsenal]

There can be only one!

[gonzoarsenal]

There can be only one!