[Football] Has there ever been a worse keeper display than that

[hart's shirt]

Michel Kuipers was substituted at Southend in the opening game of the 2000-01 season.

He didn't do too badly with the Albion in the years that followed though.

But a worse display than Karius? Absolutely not.

This Icelandic young lady wasn't exactly a bastion of confidence.

 

[maffew]

One howler, freak goal in a game, even a season is a nightmare for a keeper. Shit happens. 2 in the same game in the CL final on an otherwise ok performance. Gotta feel sorry for him, that game will haunt him for ever, quite career damaging potentially and I doubt anyone will be more gutted. He knows he's gonna be all over the back pages tomorrow, he'll be trending on twitter, facebook will crash with Memes. Sad for . Subbing him would have been too cruel even if they had spares

 

[Stat Brother]

The back up 'keeper.

 

[Nitram]

Biggest game of his life and terrible errors, I hope he has the mental strength to get over it.

 

[GloryDays]

Like when Arsenal tried to be clever for about 5 years and not sign Shay Given when they should have done, Liverpool should really spend some money on Kasper Schmeichel. Wouldn’t even break the bank. Solid and experienced and will do a good job for 2-3 years. So many wasted years with poor keepers. It was likely that it cost them the league with Rogers and now the CL with Klopp.

Call me old fashion but I don’t get why clubs are trying to be clever with goalkeepers these days. Ball needs to stay out of the net, everything else is secondary.

 

[poidy]

Honourable mention to Graeme Smith and also Michael Poke at Northampton away in 2011.

Don’t think he ever played again after that howler.


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[Bevendean Hillbilly]

Lettuce fingers. What a time to drop 2 bollocks.

 

[Justice]

Must of been watching some Stockdale clips.

 

[Boys 9d]

Garry Sprake the Leeds and Wales keeper was noted for his howlers but retained his place in both teams.

 

[armchairclubber]

as an aside... Karius had our very own Leon Balogun in his back line at Mainz 05 for a couple of years before his £5 million move to Liverpool... may just have the better deal there....

 

[jimhigham]

Regardless of the performance, for Karius to then walk the length of the pitch to his supporters and apologise to them was classy and worthy of respect. He could easily have been forgiven for wanting to get off that pitch as soon as possible and he could have been facing a lynch mob at the other end of the field.

 

[Megazone]

Will Packham at the Withdean made tonights goalkeeping look top class

 

[Medwayseagull]

Lettuce fingers. What a time to drop 2 bollocks.

I didn't know you get could get bollocks and lettuce together- is that a Waitrose or M and S ready meal ?

 

[Insel affe]

Without reading every page or even the first, it’s probably been mentioned but has to be Nicky Rust for Barnet on his debut let in 9.

End of thread

 

[TWOCHOICEStom]

If you’re a pro goalkeeper you’ve got to at the very least do the basics right. Miss a punch, fine, get megged, whatever. But rolling the ball to Benzema when he’s 2ft away from you? Not stopping a shot you can see all the way from boot to the middle of the goal?

Nah sorry mate. You get paid a fortune to not make mistakes like that. That’s where a keepers value lies. And you done messed up.

Feel sorry for him on a human level of course. But you’re not meant to do that job.

 

[BRIGHT ON Q]

David Coles at Shrewsbury

 

[Johnny RoastBeef]

Thinking a goalkeeper needs to make more than two errors (even two major errors, even two errors that would grace those sports videos hosted by harry hill) to be considered the worst goalkeeping performance ever means I'm a troll or silly? Whatever.

You need to take into account the level of football the keeper is playing at. The Champions League final is the highest level of club football possible, and that performance by Karius was the poorest of any goalkeeper in a Champions League final.

The first goal was literally the kind of error you would see at schoolboy level.

The third goal just should not happen in a Champions League final. But Karius did the same in the quarter final against Man City when he misjudged a long shot and got lucky when it went through his hands and struck the crossbar.

You have to feel sorry for Karius, but Gareth Bales overhead kick was probably the greatest goal ever in a final, yet the 2 howlers are getting an equal share of the headlines. That's how bad he was.

 

[el punal]

Any Scottish international keeper in the 70s and 80s was far worse

And the 60s and 50s and 40s! THE performance though was by Frank Haffey in 1961 at Wembley. England just about scraped home in a tense, dour, defensive battle 9-3. (Note the sarcasm!). Poor Mr.Haffey picked out more balls from the net than your average bingo caller. Still, his fame lasted long and hard. The Scottish humour prevailed with the old joke :

“What’s the time?”

“Haffey past nine!”

 

[Durlston]

I didn't know you get could get bollocks and lettuce together- is that a Waitrose or M and S ready meal ?

I've gone a bit nauseous thinking about that. Whatever happened to the saying in football "he took one for the team there".

 

[Durlston]

Without reading every page or even the first, it’s probably been mentioned but has to be Nicky Rust for Barnet on his debut let in 9.

End of thread

That has to be one of the strangest matches I've ever been to. Barnet had two players sent off early on. It was Nicky Rust's debut and he didn't do a lot wrong. Just lethal Peterborough finishing (who always seem to score a load of goals). I always liked Nicky and he was a very polite young man when I met him.

In his second (and last) match for Barnet I think he only let one in, away to Cardiff City, who were promoted that season*

* Statto alert.