He's perhaps the most Health and Safety conscious goalkeeper in British football history, but he's also a brilliant custodian.
It got me to thinking: taking it as read that Brazilian teams are excluded from this, has there ever been a truly great football team that did not feature a great goalkeeper? A team with such attacking verve and defensive steel that a plodding journeyman could stand between the sticks for them with the express purpose of picking the ball out of the net occasionally and picking up his wages at the end of the month?
You all have my permission to turn this thread into an intense scholarly debate about the relative merits of Bruce Grobbelaar, by the way.
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