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EXCLUSIVE: England’s World Cup-winning goalkeeper Gordon Banks is known astir astatine nan 1970 World Cup for making nan ‘save of nan century,’ but was he besides nan unfortunate of a concealed work crippled astatine nan tournament?
Audible has unveiled Foul Play, an investigative bid launching connected May 28 that asks whether Banks was poisoned by nan CIA during nan World Cup successful Mexico. The mentation goes that he was administered a bout of nutrient poisoning that saw him miss a important quarter-final lucifer against West Germany that yet saw nan reigning champions clang out.
Ed Jervis, Banks’ grandson and investigative journalist Gabriel Gatehouse (The Coming Storm) activity to uncover nan truth down nan incident. They way down Banks’ erstwhile England teammates and ex-spies and comb done CIA documents to build a image of a world of spies, secrets and skullduggery.
As they recreation from Stoke-on-Trent successful nan English Midlands to Mexico and nan U.S., they uncover grounds of a CIA poisoning programme and find Banks’ communicative entwined pinch nan Cold War and perchance linked to nan assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Grayhouse Productions is making nan seven-part bid for Audible.
Gatehouse, co-host and executive shaper of nan podcast, said: “When I first heard this story, I thought it sounded utterly ridiculous. Surely, this couldn’t beryllium true? But nan much I dug into it, nan much plausible it seemed. Ed and I spent 3 years investigating, and we’ve uncovered much grounds than I could ever person imagined.”
Jervis added: “What started retired arsenic a travel to find retired nan existent facts of a family tale, turned into thing overmuch much superior and unsettling. Our effort to lick this enigma connected behalf of my grandad, took maine into nan murky world of cold-war authorities and Latin American dictatorships; and what we uncovered was beyond my wildest imagination.”
Banks, who played for nan likes of Leicester City and Stoke City, was a cardinal personnel of England’s 1966 World Cup-winning team.
