Editing Gordon Banks (section)

=== Chesterfield ===
Banks was [[Scout (association football)|scout]]ed by [[Chesterfield F.C.|Chesterfield]] whilst playing for Millspaugh and offered a six-game trial in the [[Youth system|youth team]] in March 1953.<ref>{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=15}}</ref> He impressed enough in these games to be offered a part-time [[Pound sterling|£]]3-a-week [[Association football contracts|contract]] by [[Manager (association football)|manager]] [[Teddy Davison]] in July 1953.<ref name="page 17">{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=17}}</ref> The [[reserve team]] were placed in [[Central League (England)|the Central League]] on account of a powerful club director rather than on merit, and Banks conceded 122 goals in the 1954–55 season as the "Spireites" finished in last place with only three victories.<ref name="page 17" /> Banks was posted to Germany with the [[Royal Corps of Signals|Royal Signals]] on [[national service]], and won the Rhine Cup with his regimental team.<ref name="page 20">{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=20}}</ref> He recovered from a [[Elbow fracture|fractured elbow]] to help the Chesterfield youth team to the 1956 final of the [[FA Youth Cup]].<ref name="page 20" /> There they were beaten 4–3 on [[aggregate score|aggregate]] by [[Manchester United F.C.|Manchester United]]'s famous "[[Busby Babes]]"—a team that included both [[Wilf McGuinness]] and [[Bobby Charlton]].<ref name="page 22">{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=22}}</ref>

Banks was given his first-team debut by manager [[Doug Livingstone]], at the expense of long-serving [[Ron Powell]], in a [[Football League Third Division|Third Division]] game against [[Colchester United F.C.|Colchester United]] at [[Saltergate]] in November 1958.<ref name="page 23">{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=23}}</ref> The game ended 2–2, and Banks kept his place against [[Norwich City F.C.|Norwich City]] in the following match; by the end of the [[1958–59 Football League|1958–59]] season, he had missed only three games, those owing to injury.<ref name="page 25">{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=25}}</ref> With no goalkeeping [[Coach (sport)|coach]] to guide him, Banks had to learn from his mistakes on the [[Football pitch|pitch]], and he soon developed into a modern vocal goalkeeper who ordered the players in front of him into a more effective defence.<ref>{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=26}}</ref> Having just 23 league and three cup appearances to his name, it came as a surprise to Banks when [[Matt Gillies]], manager of [[Football League First Division|First Division]] club [[Leicester City F.C.|Leicester City]], bought him from Chesterfield for £7,000 in July 1959; this also meant a wage increase to £15 a week.<ref>{{harvnb|Banks|2002|p=27}}</ref>