What has actually happened to Joe Hart?
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The Robben one is so close in the keeper has no chance unless he anticipates the shot and gets it right. Ribery should have done better but you can't let teams have free shots of that ferocity from 25 yards.
What happened? He joined citeh. Enough said.
The poznan celebration has kinda backfired on the cnuts.
He had a great season the year they won the league.
It was a poor peice of goalkeeping...not quite howler territory though
A howler is what the Plzen keeper did!
Someone finally told Joe Hart he's English, so he now plays like an English goalkeeper. Have you chaps had a good goalkeeper since about three years before David Seaman retired?
That's a bit rich considering you played a knob like Tony Meola in between the sticks for ages.
Actually, I was never consulted about team selection back in those days, but remember that, at the time, the US was playing soccer, not association football. Also, consider the difference between then and now (regarding American goalkeepers).
If not for injuries Kirkland might have been a better option than England otherwise had at our disposal in the post-Seaman era.
Perhaps it is being at a club where you know the owner, the management, the fans are always looking for the next big name to bring in and replace somebody regardless of how well you do or do not play.
The word soccer is an abbreviation of association football.
Maybe he's been visited by the Space Jam monster... whose previous victims include Fernando Torres and Antonio Valencia.
I was just watching that game again and does anyone else find it bizarre that even after serious howlers (a few last season and a couple this season) he just doesn't seem to look like he cares? Is it a mental thing? Is it a genuine idgaf reaction?
It's a bit weird. He never goes mental at his defense and he never seems to exude extreme composure in many tough situations. I find it bizarre.
It's a bit weird. He never goes mental at his defense and he never seems to exude extreme composure in many tough situations. I find it bizarre.
Maybe all of Mancini's digs in the press last year has eroded his self-confidence? Ferguson, Wenger etc would always back their goalkeeper publically yet Mancini saw fit to tear him apart on more than one occasion publically.
What would de Gea be like if Fergie had publically slated him after the Blackburn game a couple of years ago?
What would de Gea be like if Fergie had publically slated him after the Blackburn game a couple of years ago?
I do agree Mancini's man-management techniques didn't seem particularly effective and Nasri seems to have benefited from getting away from that too, but don't you take each person as they come? Sir Alex always said some of them needed an arm round the shoulder, some needed a clip around the ear. De Gea seems to have a completely different character.
Hart always exudes confidence bordering on arrogance whereas if anything I'd say De Gea's probably not confident enough when playing with Rio and Vidic and defers to them as the leaders of the defence. It's understandable but I think it's resulted in a few errors, and I think it paints a picture of him being someone that needed protection from his manager whereas Hart perhaps did need someone to keep his feet on the ground. De Gea was getting pummeled by the media whereas Hart was getting praised to the high heavens. It was inevitable that Hart would start getting hammered when he made a few mistakes for England so perhaps his manager was trying to guard against that and keep him level-headed?
Was Hart's post-match interview and the response from Mancini the first sign of an underlying probelm then? Of course it must be remembered that the City fans wanted the manager to stay whilst their keeper [one who possessed an open channel to certain Fleet Street reporters] became an increasingly subversive figure.
Hart who portrayed himself as a play willing to fess up when the team had failed, was a bit more reluctant when these issues were closer to home IIRC which was likely to invite trouble.
Hart who portrayed himself as a play willing to fess up when the team had failed, was a bit more reluctant when these issues were closer to home IIRC which was likely to invite trouble.
No need to come for the ball.
Surely they will try and buy Casillas in the January window.
England are fecked in the World Cup if he's the best we've got to offer between the sticks.
Oh dear!
He was trying to do his usual coming out to head the ball on that one, wasn't he? Very silly.
Bet he doesn't accept any responsibility for the goal.
That was terrible...
Dandruff.
If he gave a shout that he was coming for the ball then I'd blame the defender. If he didn't it's his fault.
Either way,
Either way,
What the feck was he thinking?
Wasnt even inside the D where he could hold it.
Wasnt even inside the D where he could hold it.
What the feck is he doing coming out for that
If he gave a shout that he was coming for the ball then I'd blame the defender. If he didn't it's his fault.
Either way,
Don't think he should be coming for it regardless, Nastasic was comfortable.
This. Shocking decision making again.
Yep. If it was close, I'd want the keeper to come and take control but the defender was already comfortably in control of the situation.
Surely there are better (at least more in form) english keepers than him no ? He's calamity waiting to happen nowadays.
They will sign a new keeper in January.
What the feck was he thinking?
Wasnt even inside the D where he could hold it.
You can't handle the ball inside the D. As far as I'm aware the D is literally only there to mark how close players are allowed to be during penalties.
No way to argue that he wasn't at fault there - at that stage of the game to come charging that far out of his goal is fecking idiotic. He cost his team big time.
Not really. The only one that has a possible chance is Ben Foster if he can overcome his injury and find his form. The others are all average.