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Gordon Banks was drink driving(and also not wearing a seatbelt) when he went through his windscreen in 1972 and lost an eye. Many believe at that time he was the best keeper in the world, we failed to qualify after failing to beat Poland at Wembley partly due to the ball going under Shilton...

He actually said how tragic it was that his career and life was ended by such a stupid mistake. You're old enough to remember that England's non qualification of the 1974 World Cup was partly due to drink driving.

John Vinicombe said on Southern Counties Radio years ago, its been common knowledge for years.

John Vinicombe told me he was something else, and Sir Norman Gall said he would have gone on to have a long international career with Wales. Sadly died as a result of drink driving, although it wasn't a criminal offence back then.