The Independent - London, November 12th, 1998
JOHN OSBORNE was never likely to keep goal for England - the consistent excellence of Gordon Banks, then Peter Shilton and Ray Clemence, saw to that - but there was a time in the late 1960s and early 1970s when he was one of the most accomplished non- international net-minders in the country.
His playing pomp was spent in the English top division with West Bromwich Albion, for whom he preserved a clean sheet in their single- goal FA Cup final victory over Everton in 1968. But the tall, rather spidery Osborne's athletic exploits between the posts accounted for only part of his appeal to fans o...
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