Moved from "How do you start supporting your team"

Supposedly the 'best' save ever and this is all they managed to film? God dem it, where is SkySports Replay when you need it!



That's Pele vs Gordan Banks btw

This post has been edited by madmoz: Jan 25 2008, 03:37 PM

Lev Yashin? Considered by many even better than Gordon Banks... Couldn't be arsed looking up his youtube though...

schmeichel..

Haha~! Here we go again. Another offspring from a discussion from another thread

I've said it before, and I'll state it again. The best goalkeeper that I've ever seen with my own eyes is Peter schmeichel. Hoping his son (2" shorter) can live up to his name...and maybe transfer to Man Utd haha~! Hoping Ben Foster will recover quickly to take over Robinson...

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 23 2008, 10:41 PM

In my lifetime, I'd say the Big Dane. The old farts needs to chip in with the older ones though.

If you are talking best save, I remember Seaman had a very good one that made me go goo-goo-ga-ga. It was his last season, can't remember which team though.

What is said to be one of Schmikes best save.

I always wonder why SAF got all those really inconsistent goalkeepers: Roy Carroll (ok lah...but not really good), Tim Howard (also ok only), Ricardo (huh?), Fabien Barthez (shortie that likes to let French compatriots from Arsenal to score...), Andy Goram (huh?), Massimo Taibi (this guys used to have potential but...), Mark Bosnich (a joke man...), Paul Rachubka (err...1 match man?), Nick Culkin (err...1 minute man?), Raimond van der Gouw (pretty good...but overshadowed by Schmeichel)...

And then, came Van der Sar

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 23 2008, 11:47 PM

this is my favourite keeper



jose luis chilavert

This post has been edited by zamarano: Jan 23 2008, 11:28 PM

Buffon, anyone?

he's making saves like nobody's business a few seasons back, not sure about now, havent watch Serie A in a loooooong time..

I pity Peter Shilton...one of the best England had seen. Here you go. The famous Hand of God...

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Added on January 23, 2008, 11:24 pmThat guy...I think is the goalkeeper that scored the most goals in history...

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 23 2008, 11:44 PM

his record broke by rogerio ceni ( sao paolo goalkeeper )

yea, no goalie scores more than Rogerio Ceni.

sum of my favorites:-

1. the big dane
2. Chilavert
3. Colombia keeper that save the back ball by his legs ( forgot his name ler... )
4. peter shilton
5. local boys- Arumugam
6.Oliver kahn- in his young days...

but ceni yet to get his 1st hat-trick

Peter Schmeichel...

1. The great saves he made:


- His great saves are far too many to mention but highlights must be: his title winning performance away to Newcastle in 1996 when he withstood the black and white siege for 90 minutes and United won 1-0.

- His stunning save against Rapid Vienna later in 1996 was one of the all-time greats, similar to Gordon Banks against Pele (the youtube video madmoz pasted earlier), demonstrating amazing reflexes.

- Then there was his legendary last minute penalty save in the epic 1999 FA Cup Semi-final replay against Arsenal to deny Dennis Bergkamp (and lead United to victory and 1 part of the Treble). It was injury time.. almost 90 minutes in the match. Arsenal had a penalty, game was 1-1.. big pete made the massive save and prevented United from losing the Treble.

- His point blank save against Inter Milan's Zamorano in 1999 was another outstanding reflex save.

- For Denmark he was instrumental in the 1992 European Championships in Sweden. Pulling off a string of vital stops he helped the rank outsiders defy the odds and lift the trophy with a 2-0 win over Germany in the final.

- His save (from John Barnes's header vs Newcastle United away in 1997-1998 season) is nominated as the best ever save of the decade of EPL 1996-2006.

2. Not only he saves goals, he sometimes scores them.

- He scored a goal in the UEFA Cup match vs Rotor Volgograd.

- He scored a fantastic scissor-kick last minute equaliser against Wimbledon in an FA Cup 4th round replay in 1997. Sadly it was ruled out because he was offside.

- He even scored for Denmark from the penalty spot in a friendly International against Belgium in June 2000.

- Throughout his career, Schmeichel scored 11 goals, a great feat for a goalkeeper. The other great and mad goalkeeper to score goals are Chilavert and Rogerio Ceni. Buffon scoring how many goals?

3. Super strong hands that throws very long goalkeeper throws

- He has very strong hands and is able to do super goalkeeper throws that are as good as Glenn Hoddle's pin point accurate passes. His throws most of the times leads to an attack. This is thanks to his background of being a handball player.

- Not only that, but from close range he was the master. In his school days playing Handball he had perfected a strange star-shaped jump to cover as much of the goal as possible. There was this one massive save made by him vs Everton, he made a star jump and manage to block the goal from 3 attempts of goal at a go. Not to forget his star jump save against Zamorano when vs Inter Milan in the Treble season.

4. He is the most capped player for the Denmark national team, with 129 games and one goal between 1987 and 2001.

5. Until today, he holds the record for the greatest clean sheets-to-games ratio in the Premiership with 42% of the games he played in the Premiership ending without his team conceding.

6. Other interesting facts:

- He is huge. 193cm tall and wears XXXL sized goalkeeper kits.

- He is an avid musician. He is can play the piano and also enjoys the drums, flute and guitar. His father is a professional pianist and his mother and sisters also play.

- He was a contestant on the 2006 series of the BBC's popular Saturday night TV program Strictly Come Dancing. Here is the youtube link:

- He likes to scream and shout a lot to his defenders. Even to his ex-neighbour who is also his ex-defender and captain, Steve Bruce.

- He used to play as a striker when he was young.

By the way, I have a video of Peter Schmeichel called 'Peter Schmeichel: Definitely the greatest goalkeeper ever'. If any of you guys still don't believe how amazing he is.. you can borrow it from me. But it's VHS format (old tape format) so need to convert to vcd first.

This post has been edited by schmeichel7: Jan 23 2008, 11:40 PM

where is oshea ?

Rene Higuita...he's got skills with his feet. Here you go:



This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 23 2008, 11:45 PM

damn how can i forget him...
one on one save Robie Keane ball... unbelievable

Haha~! That must indeed be the best laugh that Rooney and Giggs had, watching O'Shea as keeper.

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Added on January 23, 2008, 11:41 pmNizam, you're using him as avatar as well Now, I recognize that face...

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 23 2008, 11:42 PM

van der Gouw wasn't that bad.

Oh...sorry. I forgot all the important saves he made while Schmeichel was injured. Post editted. Thanks for pointing it out

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 23 2008, 11:48 PM

Because it was a big shoes to fill in.. to replace big peter.

Being goalkeeper for United is a very hard job. The amount of pressure it has.. is unbearable!

Well, with Van der Sar (which SAF wanted after Peter left but couldn't), at least Man Utd is in safe hands now

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 23 2008, 11:55 PM

yeah perfect replacement after the big Dane... what we need is Consistency....

One of the best saves ever!!!

Indeed it is a great save. Big shoes for England to fill (I know it's Arsenal playing but heck...).

Who can do better than he does?





This post has been edited by Belphegor: Jan 24 2008, 01:39 AM

iker casillas

10 sweet minutes for fellow Liverpool fans
Btw, Carragher is a closet keeper... you can see him giving instructions to dudek!

p.s. No wonder our keepers are good at saving penalties - All thanks to Carra!!!

This post has been edited by madmoz: Jan 24 2008, 09:03 AM

time to scout for a replacement, it will be just nice by the time his contract runs out

yeay..
great rogerio ceni..

how abt Rashid Hassan?

Growing up watching ManUtd winning almost everything, I'm pretty convinced that the Big Dane is the main man. I like the way he controlled his defense. One single mistake and you'd have to prepare hearing him shouting at you. A commanding goalkeeper is always a plus for any team. Also his one-on-ones were superb. He'd do the cobra-style and that'd scare the sh8t out of the striker.

The diminutive and certainly colourful, Jorge Campos!

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Added on January 24, 2008, 12:12 pmCheck our Gregory Coupet's double save at no.3




This post has been edited by Duke Red: Jan 24 2008, 12:12 PM

I would vote for Sergio Goycochea based on his performances in Italia 90 for Argentina. Not as the best in the world etc, but i think he deserves praise for his feat in that WC. He was oustanding in all those penalty saves that took Argentina to the finals. He almost saved that eventual-winning-penalty as well....got his fingertips to it.....

I'm a fan of his as well. No one had heard of him before the 1990 World Cup. First choice keeper Neri Pumpido got injured on their opening game against Cameroon when they were shocked 1-0 and Goycochea made a number of top class saves to put them in the finals against Germany, winning 2 penalty shootouts along the way. Germany won 1-0 in the final via a penalty that was scored by Andreas Brehmen but Goycochea was a whisker away from saving it. He is truly the first keeper I know that deserves the title, "penalty king", if there ever was one. Sadly I could never track his progress after the tournament as he continued to ply his trade in South America and he disappeared into obscurity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Goycochea

Sergio Goycochea has my vote too. He nearly won World Cup for Argentina 1990. That tournamant Maradona was playing badly.

me used to play as a gk during school days....
watched ol' skool videos of lev yashin, gordon banks' famous save, peter shilton flying acts, ray clemence's 1 on 1 superiority, martin brunno of france, the flying jean marie pfaff of belgium, harald schumacher and some south american's ol' skool gk.
ol' skool south americans' gk tend to be more acrobatic and adventerous in their approach, while their european counterparts are more orthodox and direct. but the trend seems to be changing now.
a tournament or a season wonder gk definitely can't be the best. but their saves will be remembered!
so...
damn ol' skool best gk goes to lev yashin
ol' skool best gk goes to err.... tie between peter shilton, dino zoff, harald schumacher and jean marie pfaff
of the current active gk, casillas and buffon definitely on the class of their own.
van de sar seems to be doing well with mu too.

This post has been edited by yngwie: Jan 24 2008, 05:55 PM

yeah schmike very the best GK

Schmeichel is the best...

I may be wrong but did you mean Bruno Martini?

I believe Ray Clemence deserves a mention as he was a great keeper of his generation. Too bad there's another great keeper that made them rotate for international duty.

a a left-footer dead-ball specialist~~

if not wrong, it is his last season at arsenal, fa cup against southampton, which bring arsenal into final, if not wrong.

The legendary Lev Yashin. Anyone else heard of him, besides Jonno and me?

This post has been edited by JonC: Jan 25 2008, 02:13 PM

nope~~
was he great?


This post has been edited by chimera_wingrove: Jan 25 2008, 02:19 PM

The first keeper ever to win the European Player of the year award, back in 1963. I'm ol' skool

Another compilation of the Great Dane.



And another keeper who is even better than the great dane....


yup even an award named after him.

my vote go to van der sar...the best keeper for me...
seldom make mistake...love him since he was in juventus...
now he in my love's team....manchester united

btw dudek is 1 of the best keeper...i wonder y liverpool let him go...
keeper like dudek can b the best..he got the potential...
the problem is he has to keep his concentration all the time

This post has been edited by ryanso85: Jan 25 2008, 02:34 PM

The legendary Black Spider, widely regarded as the best of the best.

BTW for my above post, the one who takes turn as England GK with Clemence is Shilton. Wonder why there is shortage of world class gk for the English now as back in those days, there's loads of top class English keeper.

And for Reds, special mention for Elisha Scott, longest serving player in Reds history at 22 years

Alamak How can i miss the great Elisha Scott.

yaya. my bad. always confused with his name. thanks for correcting me, bro

browsed thru the thread. he was in my list of damn ol' skool best gk
imo, ubaldo fillol is better than gordon banks.
nobody ever mentioned about jean maria pfaff?

playing as a gk and doing a homeworks on great gk of past and present s kinda
interesting.

Casillas, Buffon & Cech of the current crop & Reina gets an honourable mention as the current candidate for penalty king.

Goycochea during Italia 90, Khan during Japorea 02 were nearly unbeatable too.

As for the old school keepers (Yashin, Zoff etc) I'm not sure how they'd cope with the back pass law & modern players whacking swerving shots at them from all angles (see the goals in the current African Nations).

As for Schmeichel, he sometimes flapped at crosses & I'll always remember him for letting Basler score the 1st half free kick on his near post on that one night in Barcelona in 1999.

See the bold part & you got yourself an answer
Seriously he commits school boy errors which is costly in top flight football. As we know it is essential for great gk to keep concentration even when winning. Also he not getting younger hence the decision to let him go.

Well you never mention Grobbelaar & Clemence either

This post has been edited by vreis: Jan 25 2008, 03:45 PM

Of course lah but I prefer instead to name keepers I've actually seen play, not something I get off youtube.

you BOTH forgot David James

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Added on January 25, 2008, 3:47 pmOn his day he was unbeatable.

This post has been edited by madmoz: Jan 25 2008, 03:47 PM

Got the opportunity to watch some matches that he played through tv footages before youtube existed.

But sadly his 'days' seldom comes during his stay in Reds
Maybe it's the kamikaze defending that we adopted that time marred his performance

Blame it on his addiction to sony ps and lara croft.

i saw him miss a cross by at least a meter at anfield :thumb: Didn't even get anywhere near enough to flap at it... looked like he was confused between the defenders head and the ball

R. Arumugam!

who is R.Arumugam?

Are you kidding mate? Do a google search. "Spiderman" was Asia's top goalkeeper when in his prime. He played for Malaysia when our football was at it's peak.

Malaysia Best Ever Goalkeeper!

better you say someone more ridiculous such as Azman Adnan??

my personal best goalie: buffon

You should look at what role they were bought for. Carroll was bought as a cover for Barthez, didn't cost the earth. Was an OK GK, nothing more, nothing less, backup material. Ricardo was the same(although I'm not sure how good he is), concede a penalty every game, and saved them every time. That must have count for something. But like Carroll, backup. Barthez was very good for us, was for a season and a half. After that that circus bug got to him. Bosnich was free, didn't really have a choice that time with him missing out on VDS. Taibi was bad though. A few games, and he's gone.

Best I've seen is the Big Dane. Others no comment. Yes he makes mistakes, but so do the other 'top' GKs. Look at Cech.

To be honest, I never rated Barthez, and not just because he signed for your club. He was voted goalkeeper of the tournament at the 1998 World Cup but he didn't have much to do from what I saw. I always thought he was erratic if not a little eccentric. Well, that's just my opinion. I really rated Mark Bosnich though as one point, but then he got fat and become a druggie. Out off all Man Utd keepers excluding Schmeichel, I rate Jim Leighton. Les Sealey after him did a surprisingly good job as well. He wasn't spectacular but he was reliable. Think you lot signed him from Luton (who had their own reliable no.1 in Alec Chamberlain) or some place.

Les Sealey was really; really underrated.

Exactly. Not many will remember him.

Not many will remember players who have never played in the premiership's dazzling lights...

Fixed for greater justice.

touche