I think N.Ireland played Brazil in 1986. They lost 3-0 and Pat Jennings was over 40. I remember Terry Venables at half-time picking out a clip in which a Brazilian sent in a cross from the left. Jennings just patted it down on the ground and kicked it up field. No panic, no fuss.
Among the honours pat won he also has the title of being Evertons most capped player even though he never played a game. Everton signed him as a standby to Bobby Mimms while Neville Southall was out injured. This was in 1986. He will always be a legendary goalie from a age when there were some top class keepers around.
I become an Arsenal fan in 1978 when just a kid and knew nothing about Pat Jennings' history at Spurs until around about the mid eighties when he went back there. Came as a real shock!! Great guy nonetheless and part of that fantastic cup team I grew up with, and which traumatised me with one too many final defeats 😢
Goodness me this type of broadcasting is of different age today. It does feel a bit like an old boys club back than slightly elitist. At least the licence fee covered all this instead of the endless subscriptions today.
Hello from Northern Ireland! This is Pat Jennings great grandson Jonathan Jennings and I am honored to be the grandson of this G.O.A.T just wanted to see what my grandpa could really do when he played football.
I didn't become a Spurs fan until the summer of 1978, a year after Pat left Spurs for Arsenal but have never understood why Spurs allowed him to go and to Arsenal of all places. For a number of years after coming straight back up in 1977/78 after relegation the previous season, we lacked a top quality keeper until signing Ray Clemence in the summer of '81.
As an Arsenal fan I was both shocked and elated at Spurs decision to release him. I felt then (and still feel today) that he was the most naturally gifted goalkeeper in the world! Damn nice and decent guy to boot too!
What a goalkeeper and managed to get away with it still loved by both teams how you play for both teams and still appalled by both how players can join there rivals and still be loved spurs man at heart really always a spurs player but arsenal got a good singing with him he went back to spurs twice I wonder if he was really a tottenham player at heart
I watched him play for arsenal in the north bank he's hands where like shovels and the amount of caps he won for northern Ireland he should done more for northern irea nd
The excuse that Roger Milford did not send Gazza off because he felt sorry for him on the stretcher was a pathetic dereliction of duty. If only Gazza had gone to Man United and not Spurs, that house for his parents may have been a price too much. Venebles indulged him rather than control him.
Compare Big Pat and Sol Campbell. One of them is dignified, modest and unassuming, a real gentleman, liked by every one who meets him, beloved by both sets of fans and an all time great. The other is Sol Campbell.
Jennings is a man fit to be shot by camera only from chest height or below. The man looks like a giant even when only being interviewed. He's probably the only player Spurs fans are fond of, after having gone to Arsenal, to the point that they were happy to have him back. Sol didn't have quite the same experience. I'd say Jennings is easily the best Irish GK ever, but that's a bit of a slight given how good Harry Gregg and Elisha Scott were, but he' s definitely one of the best goalies of all time, certainly better than his contemporaries Banks, Shilton etc.
Dino Zoff Buffon and Donarumma are all miles better than this. Pinglish media think anyone who played there are the best ever. Guess what ……. They are not
@@hudson7354 Lev Yashin is widely recognised as the best keeper who ever walked the planet and the man who changed how goalkeepers play the game. He played in four World Cups and won an Olympic Gold Medal, a European Championship winner, winner of the Ballon D'Or, the only keeper to ever win it. He was chosen in the FIFA World Cup All-Time Team, and saved over 150 penalties, more than any other keeper in history. Better in all respects than Zoff, Buffon and Donarumma.
It breaks my heart that Forest of this period (87-92) did not win the FA Cup. They were probably the third best team in England over those years; they finished third a couple of times and won the League Cup twice; they played with style and consistently polished diamonds who were sold to bigger clubs. Two semi-final defeats by Liverpool and one final defeat by Spurs.
Agree that Hill was a wonderful pundit, very unfairly maligned at the time, and these clips on RU-vid show how he had great insight. He’s right about Clough here: he should have addressed the players before extra time. But he does not put enough emphasis on the big stonking factor in this game: Gascoigne should have been sent off.
