| Peter Bonetti | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Peter Phillip Bonetti | |
| Date of birth | 27 September 1941 | |
| Place of birth | Putney, London, England | |
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1960-1975 1975 1976-1979 1979 |
Chelsea St. Louis Stars Chelsea Dundee United |
495 (0) 21 (0) 105 (0) 5 (0) |
| National team | ||
| 1966–1970 | England | 7 (0) |
|
1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Peter Phillip Bonetti (born 27 September 1941 in Putney, London of Swiss parents from Canton Ticino) was a football goalkeeper for Chelsea, the St. Louis Stars, Dundee United and England. Events 489 - Odoacer attacks Theodoric at the Battle of Verona and is defeated again Year 1941 ( MCMXLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (the link will display 1941 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Putney is a district of south-west London in the London Borough of Wandsworth. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Canton Ticino or Ticino ( Italian: tiˈtʃiːno French and German: Tessin and) is the southernmost canton of Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered The St Louis Stars were a Soccer team based out of St Louis Missouri that played in the original NASL from 1967 to 1977. The English national football team represents England in international football and is controlled by The Football Association, the governing body for football Bonetti was known for his safe handling, lightning reflexes and his graceful style, for which he was given the nickname, "The Cat". A nickname is a Name of an entity or thing that is not its Proper name. He was one of several goalkeepers (Gordon West of Everton was another) who specialised in a one-armed throw which could achieve a similar distance to a drop kick. Gordon West (born April 24, 1943 in Darfield South Yorkshire) is a former English footballer. Everton Football Club is an English football club located in the city of Liverpool.
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Early life
In 1948 Bonetti's family moved from London to Worthing on the Sussex coast. Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Worthing (ˈwɜrðɪŋ is a large seaside town and a local government borough in West Sussex, England Sussex is a historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. His parents ran a cafe on the seafront next to the Worthing Dome. The Dome Cinema, Worthing, West Sussex, England, is a grade II* Listed building. Bonetti shone at an early age, playing for Worthing Catholics F. C.
Playing career
Chelsea
Chelsea signed him from the Reading youth team after his mother had written to then manager Ted Drake, requesting that he give her son a trial. Reading Football Club are an Association football club based in the English town of Reading, in Berkshire. Edward Joseph "Ted" Drake (16 August 1912 - 30 May 1995 was an English football player and manager He made his first team debut in 1960 and a few weeks later helped the Chelsea youth side win the FA Youth Cup. The Football Association Youth Challenge Cup is an English football competition run by The Football Association for under-18 sides From the 1960-61 season onwards, he was Chelsea's first choice goalkeeper, a position he held more or less constantly for the next nineteen years. Chelsea were relegated in Bonetti's second full season, which saw the appointment of Tommy Docherty as manager. Thomas Henderson Docherty (born Gorbals, Glasgow on 24 April, 1928) usually known as ' Tommy Docherty' or ' The Doc', is Bonetti emerged as a key figure in a talented young side which included Bobby Tambling, Terry Venables, John Hollins and Barry Bridges. Robert Victor 'Bobby' Tambling (born 18 September, 1941 in Storrington, Sussex) is a retired English footballer, who played Terence Frederick 'Terry' Venables (born 6 January 1943 in Dagenham, London often referred to as ' El Tel', is an English football manager John William Hollins MBE (born July 16, 1946) is an English former football player and coach Barry John Bridges (born 29 April 1941 in Horsford, Norfolk) is a former English footballer. The team went into the penultimate match of the season needing to beat promotion rivals Sunderland to have a chance of going up. Sunderland Association Football Club is a professional Association football team based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, which plays in Chelsea won 1-0, with Bonetti making a brilliant last minute save to deny George Mulhall and maintain his side's promotion chances; a 7-0 win over Portsmouth secured instant promotion back to the First Division. George Mulhall (born 8 May 1936 in Falkirk, Scotland) was a Scottish footballer and manager. Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the south coast city of Portsmouth. The Football League First Division was the highest division of The Football League between 1993 and 2004 and the highest division of English football overall between
The new Chelsea side challenged for honours during the 1960s, with Bonetti a key figure throughout, although more often than not the team narrowly missed out. Chelsea won the League Cup in 1965 with a 3-2 aggregate victory over Leicester City. The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition The 1965 Football League Cup Final, the fifth to be staged since the competition's inception was contested between Leicester City and Chelsea over two legs PLEASE NOTE This section is the introduction Please do not add too much detail here Leicester put Chelsea under heavy pressure in the second leg at Filbert Street, but an inspired performance from Bonetti helped secure a 0-0 draw for his side and thus the trophy. Filbert Street, in Leicester, England, was a football stadium and the home of Leicester City from 1891 to 2002 For most of the same season, Chelsea were on course to add both the league title and the FA Cup but ultimately missed out. The Football Association Challenge Cup, commonly known as the FA Cup, is a knockout cup competition in English football, run by and named after They were beaten by Liverpool in the FA Cup while the title challenge was ended with a few games left after a bust-up between Docherty and several of his first-team players - though not Bonetti - meaning that a much-weakened team was fielded in a key match against Burnley, in which Bonetti conceded six goals. Liverpool Football Club are an English professional Association football club based in Liverpool England. Burnley Football Club, nicknamed The Clarets, is a professional football club managed by Owen Coyle and based in Burnley, Lancashire
Bonetti played in every game of Chelsea's Fairs Cup run the following season, putting in a series of impressive displays against the likes of AS Roma, AC Milan and FC Barcelona, though the side were eventually knocked out in the semi-finals, as they were in the FA Cup for the second consecutive year. The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. Associazione Sportiva Roma, ( commonly referred to as simply Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome, and are currently amongst Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to by the abbreviation Milan, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy Fútbol Club Barcelona ( Catalan fudˈbɔɫ ˌklup bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish ˈfutβol ˌkluβ baɾθeˈlona known familiarly as Barça (Spanish ˈbaɾsa Catalan The signing of Alex Stepney at the end of that season briefly threatened his position as Chelsea's first choice goalkeeper and he considered putting in a transfer request, but Stepney ultimately played only one game for the club and was sold to Manchester United a few months later. Alexander Cyril Stepney (born 18 September 1942 in Mitcham, Surrey) was an English football player who was Manchester United 's In association football, a transfer is the action taken whenever a player moves between clubs Chelsea eventually reached an FA Cup final in 1967, where they faced Tottenham Hotspur, but the team underperformed on the day and Bonetti could do little to stop Spurs winning 2-1. Tottenham Hotspur, ˈtɒʔnəm is an English professional football club which currently plays in the Premier League.
That was the closest he came to winning another trophy with Chelsea until 1970, by which time Docherty had been succeeded by Dave Sexton. David 'Dave' Sexton (born April 6, 1930 in Islington, London) is a retired English football manager and player In 1970, Chelsea again reached the FA Cup final and this time faced reigning league champions Leeds United. The first 1970 FA Cup Final took place on 11 April 1970 at Wembley Stadium and ended 2&ndash2 Leeds United Association Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Leeds United or informally Leeds, are an English professional football Over the two fiercely contested games, Bonetti had what was perhaps the finest moment of his playing career. Chelsea were outplayed for large spells in the first final at Wembley and he made a series of crucial saves to help them emerge with a 2-2 draw. original Wembley Stadium was a football Stadium in Wembley, a suburb of north-west London, standing on the site now occupied by the Shortly into the replay at Old Trafford, his left knee was badly injured after a challenge from Leeds' Mick Jones. Mick Jones (footballer may refer to Mick Jones (footballer born 1945, the long-time Leeds United striker Mick Jones (footballer He returned to the field after treatment, but was effectively playing on one leg for the rest of the match and was powerless to stop Jones scoring the opener a few minutes later. In spite of the injury, and being targeted by the Leeds forwards, he made crucial saves throughout the match, denying both Peter Lorimer and Terry Cooper, and resisted more pressure from Leeds after Chelsea had taken the lead in extra time to help secure a 2-1 win. Peter Patrick Lorimer (born 14 December 1946 in Dundee, Scotland) was a footballer who formed part of the much-admired and feared Leeds United Terence "Terry" Cooper (born 12 July 1944 is an English former football player and manager born in Knottingley, Yorkshire, England Aggregated Extra Time (AET, commonly known as extra time is an additional period played in some sports codes if the score is tied at the end of normal time Such were Bonetti's performances that season, he was voted runner-up in the FWA Footballer of the Year awards. The Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year (often called the FWA Footballer of the Year, or simply the Footballer of the Year) is an annual award given
A year later, the team added the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup after another replayed win in the final, this time over Spanish giants Real Madrid in Athens. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Athens (ˈæθənz Αθήνα Athina,) the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery as one of the world's Chelsea took a 2-0 lead in the replay, but Real dominated for much of the second half and it was another inspired performance from Bonetti, who had missed a large part of that season through injury, which helped them hold on for a 2-1 win.
That was his last trophy with the club, although they narrowly missed out on more in the following years, losing in the 1972 League Cup final to Stoke City and in the semi-finals of the same competition to Norwich City a year later. The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup, is an English football competition Stoke City Football Club is a football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, England. PLEASE NOTE This section is the introduction Please do not add too much detail here Financial and disciplinary problems within the club prevented them from building on their success and Bonetti left on a free transfer in 1975, joining the St. Louis Stars of the North American Soccer League (NASL). In football, a free transfer involves a team releasing a player once the player's Contract has expired or made available just before the end of the contract The St Louis Stars were a Soccer team based out of St Louis Missouri that played in the original NASL from 1967 to 1977. North American Soccer League (NASL was a professional soccer League with teams in the United States of America (U That year, he played 21 games for the side and helped them top the Central Division that summer and reach the play-off semi-finals. He then returned to Chelsea, where his experience proved invaluable in helping new manager Eddie McCreadie's young side gain promotion in 1976-77. Edward Graham "Eddie" McCreadie (born 15 April 1940 in Glasgow) is a former Scottish footballer who played at left-back Two years later, in May 1979, he played his final game for Chelsea, a 1-1 draw with Arsenal, having made a total of 729 appearances for the club in nineteen years – only Ron Harris has made more – and kept over 200 clean sheets. Ronald Edward Harris (born November 13, 1944 in Hackney London) better known as Ron "Chopper" Harris, is a former English A clean sheet is a football term meaning a game in which the team referred to have not conceded any goals He conceded one goal or less in two-thirds of his games for Chelsea.
England
Bonetti's international career was somewhat unfortunate. He emerged in an era of talented English goalkeepers and thus faced stiff competition for a place in the side, particularly from Ron Springett and Gordon Banks, and later on Peter Shilton, which limited him to just seven caps. Ronald Springett (b 22 July, 1935) was a football Goalkeeper for Sheffield Wednesday, QPR and England. Gordon Banks, OBE (born 30 December, 1937 in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England) is a former English footballer Peter Leslie Shilton, OBE (born Leicester, England, 18 September 1949) is a former football goalkeeper who holds the A cap is an appearance for a select team such as a school county or international team in sports He was a member of England's successful 1966 World Cup squad, but didn't make an appearance. The 1966 FIFA World Cup, the eighth staging of the World Cup was held in England from 11 July to 30 July His career with the England national side is also largely remembered for one match - the 1970 FIFA World Cup quarter-final against West Germany in Mexico, when he was thrust into the starting line-up as a late replacement for Banks, who was suffering from food poisoning. The 1970 FIFA World Cup, the ninth staging of the World Cup was held in Mexico, from May 31 to June 21. The German national football team (Die deutsche Fußballnationalmannschaft From 1950 to 1990 the team was also informally called West Germany in English as since The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Foodborne illness (also foodborne disease) is any Illness resulting from the consumption of food During the match England let slip a 2-0 lead and lost 3-2 after extra time, with Bonetti one of the scapegoats, although he could be reasonably faulted for only one of the three goals conceded. Aggregated Extra Time (AET, commonly known as extra time is an additional period played in some sports codes if the score is tied at the end of normal time scapegoat was a Goat that was driven off into the wilderness as part of the ceremonies of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement in Judaism during the times That game was his only World Cup appearance and his last for England. He conceded one goal in his other six international matches.
Retirement
After leaving Chelsea, Bonetti moved to the Isle of Mull where he became a postman. The Isle of Mull (or simply Mull; Muile in Scottish Gaelic) is the second largest Island of the Inner Hebrides, off the For the electronic mail software see GNU Mailman. "Postman" redirects here While living in Scotland, he briefly came out of retirement to play several games for Dundee United as understudy to Hamish McAlpine. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Hamish Robert McAlpine (born 21 January 1948 is a Scottish former professional football Goalkeeper. Following his retirement from playing, Bonetti moved into coaching and had spells with Chelsea, Manchester City and the England national side. TalkManchester City FC before changing verbs to singular --> Manchester City Football Club is an English professional football club At one time he held the record for the most appearances for a single club by a goalkeeper, but was overtaken in the 1990s by Portsmouth's Alan Knight. Portsmouth Football Club is an English football club based in the south coast city of Portsmouth. Alan Edward Knight MBE (born 3 June 1961 in Balham London) is a former English footballer.
Since 2005, Bonetti has made several appearances for an Old England XI in various charity games, notably against celebrity sides, usually coming on for the last 10 minutes of each game.
On the 12th November 2007, He took part in the limited edition autobiography CD series called 60 minutes with Peter Bonetti when he was interviewed by David Knight. Peter spoke in detail about his historical career including tales from the 1966 world cup winning squad (info from www. 60mins. tv)
Honours
- Chelsea
- England
Statistics
| Club Performance | League | Cup | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| England | League | FA Cup | Total | |||||
| 1959-60 | Chelsea | First Division | 6 | 0 | ||||
| 1960-61 | 36 | 0 | ||||||
| 1961-62 | 33 | 0 | ||||||
| 1962-63 | Second Division | 39 | 0 | |||||
| 1963-64 | First Division | 35 | 0 | |||||
| 1964-65 | 41 | 0 | ||||||
| 1965-66 | 38 | 0 | ||||||
| 1966-67 | 38 | 0 | ||||||
| 1967-68 | 40 | 0 | ||||||
| 1968-69 | 41 | 0 | ||||||
| 1969-70 | 36 | 0 | ||||||
| 1970-71 | 28 | 0 | ||||||
| 1971-72 | 33 | 0 | ||||||
| 1972-73 | 23 | 0 | ||||||
| 1973-74 | 20 | 0 | ||||||
| 1974-75 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| USA | League | Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup | Total | |||||
| 1975 | St. Louis Stars | NASL | 21 | 0 | ||||
| England | League | FA Cup | Total | |||||
| 1975-76 | Chelsea | Second Division | 27 | 0 | ||||
| 1976-77 | 31 | 0 | ||||||
| 1977-78 | First Division | 31 | 0 | |||||
| 1978-79 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
| Scotland | League | Scottish Cup | Total | |||||
| 1979-80 | Dundee United | Scottish Premier Division | 5 | 0 | ||||
| Total | England | 600 | 0 | |||||
| USA | 21 | 0 | ||||||
| Scotland | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| Career Total | 626 | 0 | ||||||
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