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LEV YASHIN THE GREATEST EVER KEEPER

KEVIN HALLS explains why the Soviet Union legend is his number one…

KEVIN HALLS
TALKING football in the pub with a few mates, the conversation got round to who we thought was the best-ever goalkeeper?
Names like Gordon Banks, Peter Bonetti, Neville Southall, Peter Shilton, Pat Jennings, David de Gea, Dino Zoff, Oliver Khan and many others were mentioned.
Then it came to my turn and I said Lev Yashin. This was met with comments like, ‘Great shout’ and ‘Yes, he was good’.
But one lad who had joined in our debate looked puzzled and said: “Yashin, who was he...

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