Best Goalkeeper

[tooey]

We've always been pretty solid in the gk department since I've been a fan. Ian Walker, Neill Sullivan, Kasey Keller, Espen Baardsen (sp!?) and now Hugo are all personal favorites of mine.

 

[The Lilywhites]

Big Pat for me, but love Clem and Robbo. Hugo best Prem keeper we've had.

 

[pook]

My rating is Jennings, Lloris, Brown and then Clemence.

What? No love for Ditchburn?

 

[TheSpillage]

Hugo's the best I've seen but I'll always love Erik The Viking the most.

 

[scat1620]

This poll can go fuck itself if there's no option to vote for Frode Grodas.

 

[HotspurFC1950]

Ditchburn.

 

[hodsgod]

I started going to WHL in 1973 and in my opinion, Lloris is an excellent keeper, however Jennings is the best I have ever seen. Having shaken his hand I can confirm the rumours, his hands are as big as shovels.

 

[SpurSince57]

I can remember all of these at the Lane.
Pat Jennings was the best in my mind and have voted as such (I met him once on a pub relaunch in Wood Green) but he did go to the gooners which I did not like.
As others have said 2 entirely different styles of keeping in different eras.

He wasn't to blame. KB decided the future was Barry Daines and that Pat was surplus to requirements.

 

[longtimespur]

He wasn't to blame. KB decided the future was Barry Daines and that Pat was surplus to requirements.

Didn't say he was, just don't appreciate any Spurs players going to them no matter what.
All THFC players must know the animosity between the 2 sets of fans.
The only ones coming the other way were their dregs like Laurie Brown.

 

[chinaman]

But Pat came back to us.

 

[shelfsider]

Big pat and his one handed save

 

[stewartd]

First started watching Spurs when Ted Ditchburn was in goal. He was special..
The next special one was Bill Brown who was superb . Then Jennings, who was a god. Didn't think Clem was as good as those three. Now Lloris who is also special.
So my ratings are
Jennings
LLoris
Brown
Ditchburn
Clem.
In that order.

 

[CowInAComa]

At the same time I think it's fair to say that the older you get, the more rose-tinted your glasses get when looking back at the music, films, and football players of your younger days. Could also make people more cynical about modern contenders.

You could also say that context plays a big part too. I love Dylan, but I can't imagine too many people voting him as the greatest songwriter who ever lived if a poll was made just after he'd released yet another shocking album in the 80s.

The debate about modern and past football has been done to death, but I do tend to think that the fitness, training, coaching, scouting, and general quality of your average modern footballer makes most teams from previous decades look like pub teams. Yes we get it - the ball was heavier, the pitches were crap, the laws of gravity were harsher back then, and footballers were real footballers because they'd play like thugs. I don't care. I'd wager it was a million times easier to become a professional footballer back then too, making it more than likely that the majority of players in the top flight (in the 60s and 70s at least) would struggle to get in a League One team today.

Then again I think I'm part of a whole generation who are sick to death of seeing footage of incidents such as Gordon Banks making a slightly above average save from Pele's slightly above average header, and being told it's just one Vatican vote short of being declared a miracle.

everything was better in the good old days.

Except I've watched old football games, and they are all shit.

 

[@Bobby__Lucky]

We've always been pretty solid in the gk department since I've been a fan. Ian Walker, Neill Sullivan, Kasey Keller, Espen Baardsen (sp!?) and now Hugo are all personal favorites of mine.

Sure you dont want to add Bobby Mimms to that industrious list?

 

[cabinfever]

Yes.

People often say that xxx was Spurs'/England's/The World's greatest player but never qualify it with "in my living memory". Polls like that on the site and on message boards are pointless, in fact I'm not even sure why I looked in this thread!

Can I award a Doh! to my own post?

PS Jennings was probably the best in the world in his prime but Banks held the accolade because of the affection we all felt for him as our World Cup winning keeper imo.

Banks was English, thet's the reason he was considered the best in the world. I think Jennings was better, he just didn't have the international exposure and English newspaper support that Banks had.

 

[HildoSpur]

Jennings was a better keeper than Banks. Jennings is almost certainly our best ever keeper however Lloris is the best I have seen for donkey's years and we are very lucky to have him.

 

[chinaman]

Now a poser. Jennings was able to save a lot of one-on-ones; and Jimmy Greaves nearly always scored one-on-one. If they had been on opposite teams, who would have come out with the better record?

 

[prawnsandwich]

Hugo is one of the best 3 keepers in the EPL now. Last season his kicking was poor and he panicked with many pass backs.
He has changed his kicking style and rarely panics (if at all.)
I am putting that down to MoPo.

 

[stewartd]

My money would have been on Greaves

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Hugo is one of the best 3 keepers in the EPL now. Last season his kicking was poor and he panicked with many pass backs.
He has changed his kicking style and rarely panics (if at all.)
I am putting that down to MoPo.

Fuck the PL, he's the second best goalkeeper in the world.