"When you've got a keeper like that in your team you can gain extra points. He was an outstanding goalkeeper and was very important to us" (Kevin Ratcliffe about Neville Southall) Music: Lifelike - So Electric
I always used to be Big Nev when i was in goal as a kid! My mates used to be David Seaman or Peter Schmeichel but Southall was the greatest in my eyes as a young Welshman! Superb goalkeeper
One of the top 5 ever, and by far the best I’ve ever seen in the flesh. Saw Shilton and Clemence, but Nev was ahead of them by quite a way… great reflexes and held on to so much of what was fired at him or crossed into his box.
Dad and Grandad die hard reds.. but would always say southall was the best kepper they ever seen.. i was born in 79 and growing up as a blue.. Southall was my idol. never got the credit he deserved.. anyone who knew him as a keeper would find it hard to pick any other to replace him.. absolute legend
One of the greatest. Many of those saves would win save of the season nowadays. He caught shots that every top level keeper nowadays would push/punch away. Incredible reactions, covered every part of the goal and brilliant in 1-1 situations apart from against Rushy!!
Big Nev is easily in the top 10 keepers of all time. He was so athletic, accurate with his distribution.. and probably the best shot stopper I've ever seen. And I'm a Liverpool fan.
@@Strikingathlete01 maybe somewhere out there someone might be but if so I haven’t heard of him or seen him mate big nev is the best I’ve layed eyes on
Doesn't get the recognition unfortunately. Had Wales produced anywhere near a decent squad for major tournaments, and had English clubs not been banned from European competitions, he'd have had his chance to shine.
The Best.. he never got to do it in europe on a reg basis... so was not given the stage to show the world.. but anyone who was alive in his time.. will say the same thing.. best keeper of his generation.. i would say one of the best of all time. @@Strikingathlete01
Best British goalie of the last fifty years without a shadow of a doubt. I would also say he's the best top flight goalie of the last fifty years too.If I were to pick a best of British team over the last 40 years, there are two names who I would not have to even think about Neville in goal and Bryan Robson as captain.
What an absolute legend! Yes I say that as an Everton fan of 40+ years but having Big Nev in goal was like having an extra player or two on the team because he was so good in goal.I really do like this video and the music is absolutely perfect and has an 80s feel to it too which fits well with the 80s decade when Neville was at his best!
I rember watching a game at Goodsion between Everton and Manchester United not long after they had signed Smicheal ....I can remember thinking that Smicheal was the 2nd best keeper I'd ever seen at Goodsion , after Nev .....and still by a mile . That kind of sums up just how good he was .....Bonus points for being able to clearly hear him screaming at his back four over ghe crowd.
I'm a lifelong Liverpool supporter and loved the old rivalry when LFC and Everton were the best 2 team in England. I wish Big Nev had played in our team though! Notice how he wasn't just an incredible shot stopper but more often that saved football stuck to his hands like glue, not like today. And that was in the muddy swamps that football pitches used to be like. Huge respect!
unknow goalkeeper for almost all southamerica. I have shocked with some of his saves, he really deserb more respect for sure. In the same way but in reverse, Ubaldo Fillol is very underrated outside of South America and I can guarantee you that he is the best goalkeeper in the entire history of Argentina and the top 5 of all history.
One of the greatest ever, living in South Africa in a time where we were not allowed to watch this my dad use to take us to watch this 'underground' and this dude was 1 of the greatest keepers ever, GGMU for life but the rivalry between Everton and that other team was great and Southall stood out head and shoulders above the rest
Big Nev was bloody brilliant. A true proffesional. As a kid in the 80's i was a keeper in the school team and also in a saturday team. I looked up to Neville, he was fearless. As a young keeper he was the one i loved most. I had a VHS video called "101 Great saves" and i watched it so many times, there was plenty of southhall saves on that video. Actually, i would not be surprised if that video is here on YT.
Why did I never heard of this goalkeeper ?? He seems to be excellent, even at today's standards ! As a french, we were told that goalkeepers in the Premier League at that time were crap...obviously not ;) Cheers to all football lovers
Old enough to remember his inauspicious early days, especially the 5-0 drubbing in the Derby I watched from the Main Stand. Arnold came back and was solid but unremarkable. Southall got back in the 1 jersey and made it his own. Fitting swansong to lift the FA Cup after years of service to Everton. Best goalie I saw live.
What a keeper he was thee best in his day , excellent goal keeping displays he kept out so many goal opportunities winning Everton the league twice , with great displays of goal keeping .
Southall definitely one of the all-time goalkeeping greats, up there with Yashin, Banks, Jennings, Zoff, Maier and Schmeichel. Some of his saves in this clip were phonomenal. It's such a shame that Wales never made it to a major tournament when he was at his peak, plus that great Everton side only had one season playing in Europe due to ban on English clubs in 1985.
Thing i remember about him was he didnt just pull off save after save he never made errors. Cant ever recall him dropping a cross. One of the best keepers of all time.
Non Mentioned A family man who didn't want to go away from the UK- He is the best goalie ( in 40 years) I have ever seen. And my 85 year old football obsessed father agrees. Shame he wasn't around in Ronaldo era. He is incredibly hypervigilant human
English leagues have had some fantastic keepers and some great characters especially during the seventies & eighties. Big Nev the absolute best. In his prime the best in the world. Not a keeper today fit to hold his gloves.
Everton was the only team I supported when I first watched football as a kid & through my childhood.. glad that I witnessed the golden era of Everton with Southhall, Steven , Stevens , Sharp, Sheedy...
Im a Burnley Fan (Someone has to be LOL)..Ive always thought Big Nev was a great Keeper. The confidence the players must have had with him at the back of your defence..In my opinion he wasn't only one of the best in this Country, but World Class.. Charismatic, commanded the whole area, brave ,great shot-stopper, one of of the safest pair of hands a Keeper could have..I put him up there with Shilton and Jennings..Kevin Ratcliffe has got it bang on.. Thanks Barbosa for this excellent video. Tony.
Your welcome Barbosa..His team mates expected that performance week in week out..35 seconds unbelievable!! 1 minute his team mates smother him. which rarely happened, cos they expected great performances. A total legend, wish we had, had him at Burnley. Love your video's. Have a good week Tony.
I remember watching this guy towards his last years at Everton, he's one of the reasons I enjoyed playing GK down the park and became a half decent keeper between two "jumpers".
Spent a lot of my youth behind the goal, gobsmacked at how a big man could move the way he did. Little known fact, Nev would bike it home after a match on a pedal bike, and that was from Liverpool to Wales.
That Wales team he played in always had me scratching my head. Himself, Hughes, Rush, Saunders, Ratcliffe ……. never did anything of great note. So much less than the sum of its parts. Fab keeper
I love Everton football club and always will but Neville Southall is my hero a absolutely brilliant goalkeeper a pure genius and made Everton and Wales proud nil satis nisi optimum 1878 ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️⚽⚽⚽⚽⚽
Probably the safest pair of hands during the eighties, it didn't matter who blasted the ball at him, it hardly ever fell from his grasp. I heard his gloves were special and made by Bostik.
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