His status as an all-time great may have been sealed at the 1966 World Cup, but it was the save Gordon Banks produced to deny Pele four years later which became his defining moment on the ...

Gordon Banks, the goalkeeper for England’s 1966 World Cup soccer championship team, died Tuesday, the BBC reported. He was 81.

Pele and Gordon Banks will forever be connected by the save of the century in Mexico in 1970, and the Brazilian legend explained exactly why on Tuesday as he paid tribute to a "fine human being ...