Bruce Grobbelaar

And I, I just remember being captivated by him, but also by the shirt.

And then when I started, when I started playing in goal and realizing I was actually quite good at something, Bruce Grobbelaar just became my absolute hero, and I had posters of Bruce Grobbelaar all over my bedroom.

No one unfortunately had had the conversation with me that I needed to get a map and a ruler and wr- work out that technically Bristol Rovers was the closest ground to my house.

Yeah.

He's sort of with his arms outstretched.

I think he's going to bring a bit of Bruce Grobbelaar action.

You know, it's hard to believe, you know.

You know, we literally have just scored that goal and we have literally handed me the opportunity to come back here.

They thought Clements had run his race.

And they had a new goalkeeper called Bruce Grobbelaar who proved to be kind of more... more clown than uh than keeper but um so they felt they could let clements go and they did and spurs got four or five seasons out of it playing to a very very good level but back to the final it wasn't great was it and you know again i don't think spurs fans would uh would particularly look back on that apart from the fact they won and it was a lot of fun was it

both teams played in away colors as well do you realize that in the replay so Tottenham are in their centenary season they're 100 years old when the FA Cup final happens 1882 is when Tottenham's established so they play in yellow and QPR are playing in red so you've got both

teams

I mean, it might, it might just be us, but, you know.

I, um, I've seen Bruce Grobbelaar play for Chesham.

Yeah.

Wow.

Yeah

... um, my mate, um, the South African was Bruce Grobbelaar, who went on to play for Liverpool and, uh-

Uh-huh

... and stuff.

... because the path could've gone differently.

Yeah.

And then I think it was, um, a year later, um, uh, Bruce and I, Bruce Grobbelaar, um, he was going to Rhodesia, which is now Zimbabwe.

I was going b- I went back to England, and, uh, Ron Perritt was our lawyer friend, and he said, "One of you's not coming back.

left it they'd all gone on to develop their lives of course but they hadn't left liverpool so for them liverpool and football was still absolutely central to their their lives you know and john was devastated they were all devastated but they all knew people who were had either died or been injured or thankfully you know would be traumatized But to speak to the police thing, I remember speaking to my brother John about it sometime afterwards actually, but I knew by the time he was a policeman.

And he said, part of me thinks that when you look at the footage of Bruce Grobbelaar desperately trying to get a police officer to listen to him and to open the gates or to at least try and get these people out, johnson i i got i get the impression looking back that those coppers were so and of course hillsborough taught policing a lot didn't it that those coppers were looking at that crowd and because of general hooliganism in football All they could see when they saw people going, get me out of here.

Or, you know, all they could see was anger when, in fact, they were seeing desperation and people dying.

Part of the learning for policing out of the 70s and 80s.

Williams scores because he can kick at miles.

Grobbelaar weaponizes theatre.

Schmeichel weaponizes presence.

Campos refuses to choose between goalkeeper and striker.