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Guglielmo Vicario

I remembered Modric had a hairline fracture back in the day and it turns out he was out for almost three months.
 
Vorm was pretty good. Cudiccini also. Best of all was when Friedel became backup to Lloris.

Slightly off topic, but it always amazed me how Brad kept going after his US football school back home sucked up all his money and bankrolled him. He was doing his bit for football and ended up having to have a long career to recover his financial security. I will always respect him for that, even knowing that he was never our best keeper.

Unfortunately, there was a reason why Brad played so many consecutive games across Blackburn and Spurs. He never came off his line, he never put his body into dangerous positions and he only really managed up to 2-3 yards off his line. Wasn't he about 43 when he left and about 40 when he was 1st choice under Harry?

During that period, Gomes was also treated awfully by our club and Harry R. He proved in my mind that when he went to Watford that he should have been our first choice keeper when Brad was here, and become second choice to Hugo when he arrived under AVB, just after Harry. He was at his peak and we should have supported him after a couple of howlers. He had broken a WHL record that stood for 80 years only the season before.

The transition should really have been Gomes to Lloris in my mind.
 
Note that Ange says he only wants his keepers to play short, simple passes.
He doesn't expect them to ping it long into a striker, or try to pick out some complex pass, just a short simple pass, quickly.
He says he tells his players NOT to pass back to the keeper because outfield players should deal with things.
He explains to the keeper that it is simple, don't panic, don't think it is some complex task, it is just a 10-20 yard pass along the deck, easy peasy.
 
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