Comments on: Spurs’ Cult Heroes - Your Memories of Pat Jennings… http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/ Tottenham Hotspur - latest news, opinion, reports, previews, transfers, gossip, rants... from one bewildered fan Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:49:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: skill spiele http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-376418 skill spiele Sun, 30 Oct 2011 11:35:52 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-376418 great old memories, where are these kind of superstars today? great old memories, where are these kind of superstars today?

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]]> By: Doug Nash http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-6718 Doug Nash Mon, 14 Jun 2010 08:11:36 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-6718 Hi Michael, Just a quick note to say thanks for using my quote about my hero Pat Jennings in your brilliant book. It was my birthday on June 12th (Pats 65th birthday as well!) & my wife gave me the book as a birthday present - what a great surprise to see my name in the chapter on Big Pat. I think you've got it just right & I have read it already! Best wishes, Doug Hi Michael,

Just a quick note to say thanks for using my quote about my hero Pat Jennings in your brilliant book. It was my birthday on June 12th (Pats 65th birthday as well!) & my wife gave me the book as a birthday present - what a great surprise to see my name in the chapter on Big Pat. I think you’ve got it just right & I have read it already!
Best wishes, Doug

]]> By: john quinn http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-6706 john quinn Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:09:28 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-6706 Pat Jennings was my boyhood Hero,I would stand behind his net at WHL just to watch him play.Istarted to collect a Album of newspaper cuttings as a boy right up to his retirement ..its packed with pictures and stories of various matches..His best game ....well there was so very many..I was their the night Spurs played Leeds in 1975 .last game of the season we had to avoid defeat ..Pat was magnificent ..it was just his presence ,he was so calm ,also a save I remember v Chelsea from Ian Hutchinson was amazing..the one handed catches..the penalty saves ,his quiet shy personality, his behaviour and what it meant to irish people living in london at that time ..knowing we had a keeper that was quite simply the best in the world,My late father was so proud of Pat Jennings ...lastly a small story....I was living in Ireland and wrote to Pat jennings for his autograph in the mid Seventies I even sent 20 pence for the stamp in the hope that he would reply ....well he did with his autograph ..and he also returned the 20 pence.....witch I kept in the envelope and still have to this day,it said something about the man...a man who unknowingly had a big influence on my life and what it was to behave and respect people and to go about ones work or career in a unassuming humble manner and for all that I would like to take this opportunity to say ..Thank You PAT JENNINGS THE GREATEST GOALKEEPER OF ANY GENERATION Pat Jennings was my boyhood Hero,I would stand behind his net at WHL just to watch him play.Istarted to collect a Album of newspaper cuttings as a boy right up to his retirement ..its packed with pictures and stories of various matches..His best game ….well there was so very many..I was their the night Spurs played Leeds in 1975 .last game of the season we had to avoid defeat ..Pat was magnificent ..it was just his presence ,he was so calm ,also a save I remember v Chelsea from Ian Hutchinson was amazing..the one handed catches..the penalty saves ,his quiet shy personality, his behaviour and what it meant to irish people living in london at that time ..knowing we had a keeper that was quite simply the best in the world,My late father was so proud of Pat Jennings …lastly a small story….I was living in Ireland and wrote to Pat jennings for his autograph in the mid Seventies I even sent 20 pence for the stamp in the hope that he would reply ….well he did with his autograph ..and he also returned the 20 pence…..witch I kept in the envelope and still have to this day,it said something about the man…a man who unknowingly had a big influence on my life and what it was to behave and respect people and to go about ones work or career in a unassuming humble manner and for all that I would like to take this opportunity to say ..Thank You PAT JENNINGS THE GREATEST GOALKEEPER OF ANY GENERATION

]]> By: Terry Dignan http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-5971 Terry Dignan Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:35:00 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-5971 Perhaps one day someone should write a book entitled 'THFC - A History of Stupid Transfers.' The main chapter would surely be devoted to the decision to hand over to Arsenal for a pitiful sum of money the greatest goalkeeper of his generation. Legend has it that when Pat was told of the decision to get rid of him in the summer of 1977, he wept. He wasn't the only one. While we then went through a succession of sadly mediocre netminders, Pat proceeded to save his new team time and time again with stupendous goalkeeping. I remember going to Highbury at the end of the 78-79 season - we put on a really good performance, creating some excellent chances. Alas, the great Pat pulled off one terrific save after another and we lost 1-0 What made him such a wonderful goalkeeper? Everything. He didn't have a single weakness - and he did it all with such style. He was brave, too, in an era when goalies got less protection than they do now. In my mind's eye I see him producing point blank saves in the UEFA Cup Final against Wolves in 1972. The following year he saved two penalties against Liverpool - in the same game at Anfield! When he started at the Lane he had some decent players around him but by the end of his career at Spurs the gap in ability between him and the rest of the team was embarrassing. To his credit, the manager who sold him, Keith Burkinshaw, admitted three years later that he'd made a mistake. We could have got another ten years out him. Easily. Perhaps one day someone should write a book entitled ‘THFC - A History of Stupid Transfers.’ The main chapter would surely be devoted to the decision to hand over to Arsenal for a pitiful sum of money the greatest goalkeeper of his generation.

Legend has it that when Pat was told of the decision to get rid of him in the summer of 1977, he wept. He wasn’t the only one. While we then went through a succession of sadly mediocre netminders, Pat proceeded to save his new team time and time again with stupendous goalkeeping. I remember going to Highbury at the end of the 78-79 season - we put on a really good performance, creating some excellent chances. Alas, the great Pat pulled off one terrific save after another and we lost 1-0

What made him such a wonderful goalkeeper? Everything. He didn’t have a single weakness - and he did it all with such style. He was brave, too, in an era when goalies got less protection than they do now. In my mind’s eye I see him producing point blank saves in the UEFA Cup Final against Wolves in 1972. The following year he saved two penalties against Liverpool - in the same game at Anfield!

When he started at the Lane he had some decent players around him but by the end of his career at Spurs the gap in ability between him and the rest of the team was embarrassing. To his credit, the manager who sold him, Keith Burkinshaw, admitted three years later that he’d made a mistake. We could have got another ten years out him. Easily.

]]> By: Doug Nash http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-5227 Doug Nash Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:34:56 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-5227 Easily the best goalkeeper Spurs have ever had or or ever likely to have. You could fill pages with the great saves as there are so many of them! I saw him play many times & he was a real class act, always cool & in control & capable of saves that no other goalkeeper could make & that includes Banks!. At his peak he was easily the best goalkeeper in the world as well as being a very modest man, he almost seemed embarrassed by his own brilliance. There's only one Pat Jennings & we'll never see anyone like him again. Easily the best goalkeeper Spurs have ever had or or ever likely to have. You could fill pages with the great saves as there are so many of them! I saw him play many times & he was a real class act, always cool & in control & capable of saves that no other goalkeeper could make & that includes Banks!. At his peak he was easily the best goalkeeper in the world as well as being a very modest man, he almost seemed embarrassed by his own brilliance. There’s only one Pat Jennings & we’ll never see anyone like him again.

]]> By: Ged http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-5170 Ged Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:42:37 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-5170 Met Big Pat prior to the 1993 FA Cup Semi Final and had the privelege of shaking his hand. And when I say shook hands, I mean I completely lost sight of mine for a while there. Anyway, by his own admission, Spurs were the team in his heart and he wouldn't have joined Arsenal had Spurs wanted to keep him (even if it meant playing in the 2nd division). Easily the biggest mistake of Burkinshaw's career Met Big Pat prior to the 1993 FA Cup Semi Final and had the privelege of shaking his hand. And when I say shook hands, I mean I completely lost sight of mine for a while there. Anyway, by his own admission, Spurs were the team in his heart and he wouldn’t have joined Arsenal had Spurs wanted to keep him (even if it meant playing in the 2nd division). Easily the biggest mistake of Burkinshaw’s career

]]> By: gazza http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-5169 gazza Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:37:15 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-5169 I remember so many times when was like a god, already mentioned the incredible save against Newcastle or the Goal against Man Utd (when they had a team of gentlemen and were managed by a gentleman as well) but for me it was a normal league game against Stoke with one Gordon Banks in goal at the other end. The two best keepers on the planet obviously it would be 0 - 0 but no it ended up 4-3 with both of them still turning in superb performances. I remember so many times when was like a god, already mentioned the incredible save against Newcastle or the Goal against Man Utd (when they had a team of gentlemen and were managed by a gentleman as well) but for me it was a normal league game against Stoke with one Gordon Banks in goal at the other end. The two best keepers on the planet obviously it would be 0 - 0 but no it ended up 4-3 with both of them still turning in superb performances.

]]> By: Neil the yido http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-5165 Neil the yido Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:52:40 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-5165 The Man Jennings was in my eyes head and shoulders above the great Gordon Banks, who was a great himself. Big Pat i tell you that you always will be a Yido, and not a scum Gooner. Your best years were at the Lane, where real football is played with reall men LEGENDS. The Man Jennings was in my eyes head and shoulders above the great Gordon Banks, who was a great himself. Big Pat i tell you that you always will be a Yido, and not a scum Gooner. Your best years were at the Lane, where real football is played with reall men LEGENDS.

]]> By: Neil the yido http://www.allactionnoplot.com/2009/11/spurs-cult-heroes-your-memories-of-pat-jennings-656/#comment-5164 Neil the yido Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:48:02 +0000 http://www.allactionnoplot.com/?p=656#comment-5164 I remember a game in the late seventies, when Pat chased a fan . What happened was when warming up against the Chelsea the fan ran on the pitch and tried to kick Pat. But Big Pat got the better of him by chaseing the length of the pitch tripping the fan up, and then by the scruff of his neck handed him to the old bill. And the fans went wild singing Jennings aggro . And dureing that game he made a couple of hard saves look so easy we went on and won 3 0 Chelsea were relegated brill. I remember a game in the late seventies, when Pat chased a fan . What happened was when warming up against the Chelsea the fan ran on the pitch and tried to kick Pat. But Big Pat got the better of him by chaseing the length of the pitch tripping the fan up, and then by the scruff of his neck handed him to the old bill. And the fans went wild singing Jennings aggro . And dureing that game he made a couple of hard saves look so easy we went on and won 3 0 Chelsea were relegated brill.

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