NEIL SCOTT on how goalies are no longer the team nutter

You have to be mad to be a goalkeeper.” In a constantly changing football landscape, it was one of the few things you could rely on. Like ‘Cup Final It’s A Knockout,’ the managerial sheepskin and the inescapable truth that foreign players lacked the physical and moral fortitude to withstand a wet Wednesday in Barnsley, the unique psychology of the last line of defence was something that passed into the lore of the game.
As early as 1964, football writer Brian Glanville highlighted the prevailing view with h...