After watching Manchester United's second goal against Portsmouth in a 5-0 drubbing at Old Trafford in which the ball travelled into the net at a ferocious speed of about 1MPH it reminded me of the Manchester United 'keeper who let that awful goal in through his legs. After several tense minutes of google corrections and numerous "did you means" I found out it was none other than the legendary Massimo Taibi (who?). The shot was from Le Tissier as can be seen in this HD video - it's followed by that dreadful cat video.
After I had got over how awful that attempt at a save was; it dawned on me that England have roughly 1.3 competent goalkeepers who could wear the jersey in South Africa who would stand at least a slight chance of not being an absolute catastrophe. The first is Manchester City goalkeeper Joe Hart who is on loan at Birmingham City and helped them to a 15 match unbeaten run and let's be honest - anyone who plays behind Lee Bowyer and manages to achieve that must be something special. The 0.3 is for Chris Kirkland he would count for a whole person except 70% of his body is made up of matchsticks and glue. The other keepers David James, Scott Carson, Robert Green, Ben Foster and Paul Robinson are playing and not standing out in teams like Portsmouth and West Brom for a reason - they're not good enough.
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