There was a story Gordon Banks loved to tell, always with a smile, about that save from Pelé in 1970, a split-second moment of magic that threatened to eclipse his achievement as England’s goalkeeping hero when Alf Ramsey’s men won England’s only World Cup, four years earlier.

World Cup winner and League of Ireland legend.

England's World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks has died at the age of 81, his former club Stoke have announced.