Pat Jennings

If I was too young to kind of watch them, my dad would get me these greasy six of the best videos that are showing my age now.

And it used to have all the highlights from years gone by and watching players like... hodl and like hughton as well i interviewed chris hugh in the other night and put a piece out from him and just great to talk to pat jennings who was before my time but incredible to speak to him now and he's still i see him around hotspur away still doing coaching and stuff with some of the young goalkeepers

and

absolutely amazing clive allen as well that was kind of more as probably Just, well, I just about kind of remember that I was very young when he was kind of knocking in 49 goals in the season for Spurs.

Yeah

... to kind of see her alongside, like, Glenn Hoddle and, like, Pat Jennings and Ledley King.

So yeah, big, big shout-out.

And then I've got a small footballing one as well.

But when, when crit- criticism was quite rough, 'cause if, if we, if we lost, I always got the headline.

It was c- really my fault, and we had people like Graham Rix and Kenny Sansom, all international players, David O'Leary, Pat Jennings, uh, Tony Woodcock, who were never really getting any criticism whatsoever.

Yeah.

And I don't, I don't have a problem with that with the boys.

It's like, no, it was just really dull.

And Eamonn Andrews come running around with this red book, This Is Your Life.

And we were like, "Where's he going?" And he ran by us to Pat Jennings.

And it was, "This has been set up for This Is Your Life to come on the pitch after a London derby." I thought, "What happened to we were like a beat?"

We could debate going back.

I was about to say, you haven't heard of Pat Jennings then?

Yes, I've heard of him and his picture's on my... screen on my phone but that's a whole other story and Schmeichel said that night in response to a question something very interesting the little boy I think he was seven or eight said I'm a goalkeeper how do I become as good as you and his answer was fundamentally you need to enjoy the game and I think it was an interesting contrast to the growing obsession for many sports clubs to have academies for children as soon as they come out of nappies, which I think is heading them in the direction of sport as an industry far, far, far too young in life when they should just be playing for fun and working out how good they are and how much they really want to major in sport or just have it as a side part of their life there are big dangers there and you've highlighted them and i think it's something that has to be faced up to by society in general and by sporting clubs as well

yep yep all makes perfect sense to me as well colin Okay, now we've got two spaces left on our diagram, one at the left-hand end and one at the right-hand end.

a small sample size size paul like if there's only three goalkeepers then the best one's gonna get get in there isn't he

not really I mean, we did have Pat Jennings, who in my eyes is the best goalkeeper in

Europe.

But hey-ho.

And every October, the whole local league would shut down and either England or Scotland would play a three o'clock kickoff on a Saturday afternoon at Windsor Park and 60,000 people would go to watch them.

And this was the era that eventually gave us the likes of Pat Jennings and George Best and Martin O'Neill, Gerry Armstrong.

You know, there was no kind of suggestion that there was any other team in town.

And then, of course, events take over and things evolve.

Like, there's gonna be people You know, younger people than, than I and younger than you even, if that's, if that's possible.

You know, who are growing up with David Raya as their Arsenal goalkeeper in the way that, you know, people grew up with Bob Wilson as their Arsenal goalkeeper, or Pat Jennings, or David Seaman as-

It was David Seaman for me really, yeah.

Yeah, exactly the same for me, you know.