Despite being a World Cup winner in the previous summer, Banks was dropped by Leicester towards the end of the 1966–67 season in favour of teenager Peter Shilton. Banks was transfer listed for £50,000 and moved to Stoke. Banks made what he believed to be three of the best saves of his career in a Stoke shirt. He saved and caught a powerful header from Manchester City’s Wyn Davies from just eight yards out; he saved a Francis Lee header at Maine Road; and he made his third great save for the club by holding a volley from Tottenham’s Alan Gilzean that had been hit from just six yards out

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