Steve Banks

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Steve Banks
Personal information
Full name	Steven Banks
Date of birth	February 9, 1972 (age 35)
Place of birth	Hillingdon, London, England
Height	5'11"
Nickname	Banksy
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Hearts
Youth clubs
19??-1990	West Ham United
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990-1993 1993-1995 1995-1999 1999-2003 2001-2002 2002 2002-2003 2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-	West Ham United Gillingham Blackpool Bolton Wanderers → Rochdale (loan) → Bradford City (loan) → Stoke City (loan) Stoke City Wimbledon Gillingham Hearts	000 (0) 067 (0) 153 (0) 020 (0) 015 (0) 008 (0) 010 (0) 004 (0) 024 (0) 039 (0) 007 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Steve Banks (born February 9, 1972 in Hillingdon) is an English goalkeeper currently playing for Scottish Premier League club Hearts.

Banks was born in Hillingdon, London and began his career as a trainee with West Ham United. He made just one first team appearance for West Ham before joining Gillingham on a free transfer in March 1993.

He was a regular for the remainder of the season and his form the following season led to a £60,000 move to Blackpool in August 1995. In March 1999 Banks moved to Bolton Wanderers for a fee of £50,000. Although a regular at the start of his time with Bolton he soon lost his place and had loan spells with Rochdale (December to May 2002) and Bradford City (August to November 2002) before joining Stoke City on loan in December 2002. He played ten times in his loan spell, joining Stoke on a free transfer in February 2003. However, he played just four times after his free transfer and was released at the end of the season.

He joined Wimbledon in August 2003 and was a regular in their struggling Championship side until moving to Gillingham on a free transfer in March 2004.

In August 2005 Banks joined Heart of Midlothian on a free transfer as back-up for regular goalkeeper Craig Gordon.^[1] He made his Hearts debut as a substitute in the 2-2 draw against Falkirk on October 2, 2005 after Craig Gordon's sending off. Two weeks later, Banks played in a crucial 1-1 draw with Celtic at Celtic Park^[2] in which he made a number of crucial saves to maintain the Jambos' unbeaten start to the season. He made another rare start v Dundee United on the December 23, 2006 and kept a clean sheet as Hearts won 1-0 at Tannadice. Banks repeated the feat on February 10, 2007, in a 1-0 win against Caley Thistle at Tynecastle.^[3] Earlier in the day, Banks, who had recently become first-choice ahead of unsettled Craig Gordon, signed a contract that will keep him at Hearts until the end of the 2007/8 season.^[4] Gordon returned to the starting line-up on February 17 in Hearts' 1-1 draw with St. Mirren.^[5]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Steve Banks' career stats at Soccerbase
• Steve can't bank on a star turn - The Scotsman article
• Banks lives up to Gordon's fine tradition - The Independent article
• Poor Hearts in debt to Banks - The Scotsman article

Heart of Midlothian F.C. - Current Squad

1 Gordon | 2 Neilson | 3 Fyssas | 5 Tall | 6 Barasa | 7 McCann | 8 Aguiar | 9 Jankauskas | 11 Pospíšil | 12 Bednář | 13 Banks | 14 Bešlija | 16 Mikoliūnas | 18 Česnauskis | 20 Berra | 21 Gonçalves | 22 Elliot | 23 Wallace | 24 Ivaškevičius | 25 Karipidis | 26 Žaliūkas | 27 Velička | 28 Brellier | 34 Kingston | 36 Neill | 37 Driver | 38 Lithgow | 40 Jónsson | 41 J. Armstrong | 42 Glen | 43 Kurskis | 44 Klimek | 45 Pilibaitis | 46 Kančelskis | 47 Mackle | 53 Park | 57 Kostadinov | — Copil | Interim Head Coach: Korobochka

Persondata
NAME	Banks, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	English footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	February 9, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hillingdon, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH