I came across this link the other day, and it made me really happy! Finally someone thought of the goalkeepers and decided to publish a goalkeeper magazine. It’s not launched yet, but subscriptions are allowed, and from what I can see, that will be the only way to get it. Oh, the joy!
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10 Jan
Manuel Neuer – new Manchester United goalkeeper?
Speculation is rife at the moment about the burning question of who will be the next goalkeeper of Manchester United after Edwin Van Der Sar eventually hangs up his gloves at the end of this season. I’m still sort of hoping he won’t. VDS is still at his very best, and there are only a [...]
3 May
Pepe Reina – a goalkeeper not afraid to use his feet…
Pepe Reina and idle transfer gossip The big bald Spaniard has been in the press a lot this week. Having recently penned a new deal with Liverpool, goalkeeper Reina has now recently been linked to a move away from Anfield – perhaps down south to the Emirates. Yeah, I don’t believe that one either. “A [...]
22 Apr
Goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon Interview – The Most Intelligent Footballer Today?
Forget the question of The World’s Best Goalkeeper. What about the title of World’s Smartest Football Player? Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon is talked about for many reasons, many of them connected to his wonderful ability as a goalkeeper, his outstandingly glamorous girlfriend, his bizarre visual likeness to Al Pacino, or his famous endorsement of Puma [...]
19 Apr
Petr Cech saves – great goalkeeping from the big keeper
Well, this is annoying. I can’t manage to embed the Daily Motion clip of Cech’s oustanding performance against Spurs this weekend… What a performance. Sadly for Petr Cech, his great saves, keeping out an onslaught of attempts on goal from the Tottenham side, will probably go mostly forgotten. Chelsea went down in a shock 2-1 [...]
2 Apr
Bottling out and screwing up…
We’ve all done this: Well, I have anyway. More than once. The video quality isn’t great, so let’s take a look in high def freeze frame: The papers all quickly rounded on Wigan goalkeeper Vladimir Stojkovic earlier this week, blaming the Serbian “golman” after this mishap in the Wigan defence sent Wigan one down and [...]
25 Mar
The Goalkeeper and the Goalmouth
The thing about the goalmouth is, it makes ALL the difference. Really, it’s hard to emphasise this enough. Every amateur goalkeeper knows this feeling – another away game you’ve spent an hour and a half to drive to and lethargically emerge from the changing rooms to walk out on to the pitch – and that [...]
13 Mar
Goalkeeping etiquette – what to do when you’ve made a great save
Even crap keepers make a great save every now and then. So in a way, this is one of those universal things that every goalkeeper has to confront. But for some reason, it’s one of those things that just doesn’t really get talked about that much. The question is, What should the goalkeeper do after [...]
6 Mar
Dave Beasant – penalty saving king!
I don’t know if Big Dave Beasant actually was the penalty saving goalkeeping expert that he’s sometimes cracked up to be. But it really doesn’t matter. As the first man to save a penalty in an FA Cup final, ever, with a great block to parry away John Aldridge’s well placed penalty and hand the [...]
28 Feb
The stand-in goalkeeper: the job you’d have to be crazy to want?
You have to be crazy to be a goalkeeper, everybody knows that. But to be a stand-in goalkeeper…??? The psychology of the substitute goalkeeper is a strange one. At the highest level of professional football it’s even stranger. The years of hard work, passion, obsession – pain and often injury too – to get close [...]
