00:06And when was your final clean sheet as England player, do you remember?
00:10My final clean sheet was against, for England, was against, let me think, Belgium.
00:22That's correct. Yeah, that's Italian.
00:24I always remember clean sheets.
00:29That's Peter Shilton, long-time goalkeeper for England, recalling the last time he kept a clean sheet for his country.
00:36It also happens to be the shutout that set a new World Cup record.
00:41Against Belgium at Italian 90, Shilton denied the opposition a goal for the tenth time in his World Cup career.
00:50It is one of a long list of records held by the Shotstopper, who won consecutive European Cups with Nottingham
00:56Forest,
00:56and made over 1,000 professional appearances.
01:02But despite setting such incredible benchmarks, Shilton's World Cup career remains forever attached to one moment.
01:10Diego Maradona's hand of God.
01:13When the Argentina skipper leapt with Shilton to punch the ball into the net in the quarter-final of the
01:181986 World Cup,
01:21Shilton has not mellowed with the passage of time.
01:25I still don't feel very good about it.
01:27Although, and even worse, because the linesman, I think, who should have Givner seen it, said he did see it.
01:35People still remember it. And, yeah, I've still not forgiven Diego Maradona.
01:42A generation later, Shilton's record was matched by a goalkeeper with much fonder memories of the World Cup, France legend
01:49Fabian Barthez.
01:52Over the course of three tournaments, including the victorious 1998 edition,
01:57Barthez equalled Shilton with ten clean sheets.
02:02One of those, of course, was the 1998 World Cup final,
02:06when Barthez denied a Brazil side boasting the likes of Ronaldo, Rivaldo and Bebeto.
02:14The France 98 Barthez also set a new mark for the fewest goals conceded during a victorious World Cup run.
02:21That mark of two has since been equalled by Ike Casillas and Gianluigi Buffon.
02:29During Buffon's success in 2006, another goalkeeping record was being set by Switzerland's Pascal Zubabula.
02:36The Swiss number one kept four consecutive clean sheets and saved a shootout penalty from Andrei Shevchenko.
02:44But despite these heroics, he became part of the first team to be eliminated from the knockout stage at a
02:49World Cup without conceding a goal.
02:54But Zubabula finished one clean sheet short of the consecutive record at World Cups.
02:59That still belongs in the safe hands of Italian icon Walter Zenger, who didn't concede until the semi-finals of
03:06Italian 90,
03:07a run lasting over five and a half games.
03:13But that still wasn't enough to see the hosts into the final.
03:17They were undone in a semi-final shootout against Argentina following a one-all draw.
03:25The scorer of the winning spot kick, that's right, the World Cup goalkeeper's arch-nemesis, Diego Armando Maradona.
03:34Maradona.
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