Who was the greatest ever Sheffielder?

We asked people who was the greatest ever Sheffielder

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00:00 Could you tell me please who you think the greatest Sheffielder ever has been?

00:04 Oh yeah, that's an easy one. Gordon Banks.

00:06 Why's that?

00:07 Well obviously because he won the World Cup and he was the greatest goalkeeper ever.

00:11 Could you tell me please who you think is the greatest ever Sheffielder?

00:16 Probably I would think Alan Sheldon.

00:20 Why would you go for Alan?

00:23 First lady in space, aren't you?

00:25 Before anybody else?

00:28 Before anybody else.

00:30 She's got a lovely name after all.

00:33 And a lovely name so, yeah, probably Alan.

00:37 Could you tell me please who you think is the greatest ever Sheffielder?

00:41 I think Jess Ennis.

00:43 Why's that?

00:44 I think that she's for her World Olympics, winning its medals.

00:51 Could you tell me please who you think the greatest ever Sheffielder was?

00:55 Yes, it was Charlie Peece. He was from Darnham.

00:59 He was a known criminal, but everybody knew him.

01:04 Could you tell me who you think the greatest ever Sheffielder was?

01:09 To me it's got to be Joe Cocker, simply because he was a fantastic talent and he was a proper working class lad.

01:17 Which I think is what Sheffield is all about. People love sighting it, what Sheffield was built on.

01:23 Could you tell me please who you think the greatest ever Sheffielder was?

01:26 Well there's many of us, very, very many of us.

01:28 But given my footballing affiliations, I would say Don Megson, former captain of Sheffield Wednesday.

01:34 What did he do?

01:35 He played football. He wasn't a Sheffielder, but he settled in Sheffield and he was very successful and he was captain of our football club.

01:45 Could you tell me please who the greatest Sheffielder ever has been?

01:51 Well, one of them, I wouldn't say the ever, but Sean Bean is good.

01:57 I used to live next door to his grandad and he was a great bloke, his grandad. He was a top man, that's where I know him from.

02:04 And has Sean been pretty impressive for the city as well?

02:07 Yeah, he's good, yeah.

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