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Feast of Football

12 Days of EJFOF: Christmas Day - Goalkeeper

Feast of Football

BBC

Sports

4.8564 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

On the first day of EJFOF, Elis James, Danny Gabbidon and Iwan Roberts give to you, a goalkeeper for the EJFOF all-time Wales XI.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Are you, do you know bad at us?

0:01.7

Welcome to the 11 days of Edgefoth.

0:05.2

Yeah, but we're only picking.

0:06.5

Oh, we're picking manager as well, yeah, yeah.

0:09.2

This is really bloody 11 players in the team, isn't it?

0:11.3

Don't you say, cut this?

0:13.6

That's got to be the staff.

0:20.5

Welcome to the 12 days of Edgefof where we're choosing our greatest ever Welsh 11 from the last 140 years or so, although I've got a sneaking suspicion that some of our panel's choices are going to be slightly more modern, and I'm looking squarely at Danny Gabbard on for that.

0:37.8

So today we're going to be choosing our goalkeeper.

0:41.2

Let's start with you, Iwan.

0:43.3

Who do you think is the greatest Welsh goalkeeper of all time?

0:46.6

For me there's only one.

0:48.3

And I was fortunate to play with him, Big Nev, magnificent goalkeeper.

0:53.4

Fair enough.

0:57.5

I mean, he was regarded as the best goalkeeper in the world at one point.

0:58.8

In the mid-80s.

1:03.4

I remember I played in a charity game at Lowest Off, five or six years ago,

1:06.9

and Big Neve turned up, and obviously he's put a lot of weight on.

1:10.5

And we're walking out, and there was a young lad there with his dad,

1:12.8

and they weren't Welsh, and this young lad pointed at Nev and because all the others were from the local area and he went, who's he

1:18.5

dad? And his dad went in the 80s and early 90s he was the best goalkeeper in the world. So for someone

1:25.4

like that to say it who wasn't a Nevatonian, wasn't the Welsh fan, but knew who Nev was. And we used to, you know, when we used to train, at the end of the session, we'd have a shooting practice, and he wouldn't even use his hands. He'd headballs away, he'd use his shins, he's using shoulders, honestly. Also, that time he didn't go in for the halftime team talk. He just sat with his back against the post thinking. I love that, because he's a character. He's also superb on Twitter. But you think it's never Southall. Danny, who do you think is the greatest Welsh goalkeeper of all time straight into our all-time Welsh Lever?

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