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18th January 2023
09:50pm GMT
"That's his job! I think they're standard saves. I actually think catch the first [shot]. "Pretty straightforward. That's why he's wearing gloves! That's his job, honestly."https://twitter.com/itvfootball/status/1615791878430924800
"I put the gloves on and I said that if they could get the ball past me I’d give them a thousand pounds each but, if they missed, they’d have to give me a hundred. Eight or nine players lined up, and I knew that Craig and the other goalkeepers were pissed off with it. They didn’t even look at my goalkeeping skills. "They just did their stretches. I tipped a few on to the bar, on to the post, and I kept a clean sheet. I won eight hundred quid off the players – I could have lost eight grand. I was trying to generate a bit of banter, but I’d embarrassed, and maybe belittled, the goalkeepers. I hadn’t meant to. "But I didn’t think the keeper should be beaten from 25 or 30 yards. I think I lost Craig for a few weeks, and maybe longer, because of that."The Cork native made a few bob, but his relationship with Gordon had taken a big hit. He is not a fan of David De Gea or Jordan Pickford either. There is recorded footage of Roy Keane praising a goalkeeper, back in May 2022 when he selected Peter Schmeichel in his Best Manchester United XI. "He was very, very good," said Keane. "Not as good as everyone thought he was, but he was very good."
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