Can a keeper really run over 2.5 miles in a game?

[pigbite]

Just reading todays S*n in the barbers and it was suggesting that Joe Hart runs 2.77 miles in a game.

I can quite believe an out field player runs 7-8 miles a game but over 2.5 miles for a keeper?

Sounds a hell of a lot to me.

 

[super-seagulls]

It depends on how many goal kicks he takes!

 

[nomoremithras4me]

Just reading todays S*n in the barbers and it was suggesting that Joe Hart runs 2.77 miles in a game.

I can quite believe an out field player runs 7-8 miles a game but over 2.5 miles for a keeper?

Sounds a hell of a lot to me.

I thought the same when I read it, must be bollocks. Harper don't travel 200 yards in a game

 

[pigbite]

That's of hell of a lot of 6 yard run ups!

 

[Stoichkov]

Ryan Giggs covered 6.9m in last seasons champion league final - the furthest by any player in the game

2.77 miles seems excessive for a 'keeper

 

[Stoichkov]

I make that just over 132 times he'd have to run from the goal line to the edge of the box and back again

 

[pigbite]

I make that just over 110 times he'd have to run from the goal line to the edge of the box and back again

The only keeper I know who could come anywhere close to that is Grobbelaar unless they had some kind of OCD!

 

[pigbite]

I make that just over 132 times he'd have to run from the goal line to the edge of the box and back again

I doubt even Grobbelaar was that active!

 

[shaolinpunk]

If I was a keeper and being tracked, all the time the ball was in the opposition's final third/out of play I'd be jogging back and forth in the box

 

[Braders]

if he has a tendancy to do up for the final corners to snatch a chance at glory, maybe


doubt it mind.

 

[Colossal Squid]

Chilavert possibly. Nobody else though, Shirley?

 

[KZNSeagull]

I doubt even Grobbelaar was that active!

He would if he was collecting brown envelopes from people in the crowd - allegedly.