Goalies as football pundits

[pedro789]

Just heard Mark Schwarzer on BBC. Think Joe Hart and Shay Given on there too.

Makes no sense to me having keepers as pundits, unless they're talking specifically talking about other keepers.

No one takes any notice of the keeper, at any level of football.

 

[allen]

Just heard Mark Schwarzer on BBC. Think Joe Hart and Shay Given on there too.

Makes no sense to me having keepers as pundits, unless they're talking specifically talking about other keepers.

No one takes any notice of the keeper, at any level of football.

Do we also need to limit Keown to talking only about defenders and Shearer only strikers?

Or do you just have a dislike of keepers?

Perhaps because you think routinely touching the ball with their hands means they don’t understand the chief defining characteristic of foot-ball?

 

[Kurt.]

A friend of mine was a goalkeeper turned goalkeeper coach, he was and still is widely regarded as a top coach, but he was also the set piece coach at some of his clubs.

 

[Eggs]

…..there are a few ex-keepers who become football managers. Indeed I think Nuno Espírito Santo was a keeper.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Someone needs to sign Rob Green up to the triads.

 

[DualityNSNO]

Do we also need to limit Keown to talking only about defenders and Shearer only strikers?

Can we just limit both of them to not talking in front of an audience please?

 

[JLW]

Can we just have less and less pundits especially people Daniel Sturridge, Martin Keown, Danny Murphy, Garth Crooks
Every one of them are unbearable.

 

[Rita_Poon]

Can we just have less and less pundits especially people Daniel Sturridge, Martin Keown, Danny Murphy, Garth Crooks
Every one of them are unbearable.

Crooks is amazing, every insight* is presented like he's miss marple and he's just solved an impossible case.

 

[JLW]

Crooks is amazing, every insight* is presented like he's miss marple and he's just solved an impossible case.

I want to put my foot through the telly every time he speaks

 

[Yarrgh]

Given that the world spitting championships are only on the 29th February, would once every four years still be too frequent to hear from Carragher.

 

[Yarrgh]

A friend of mine was a goalkeeper turned goalkeeper coach, he was and still is widely regarded as a top coach, but he was also the set piece coach at some of his clubs.

This makes some sense to me. Given that the goal keeper is integral to the set piece.

You'd also think that a goalkeeper operating at their best have to read the game and be alert for the whole 90 minutes most of that as an observer which would give them insights into how outfield players move, react, and organise themselves. So yes, a good intelligent keeper with good communications and people skills having picked up a knowledge of tactics could indeed be a good coach. Dino Zoff comes to mind and I am sure there are others.

 

[RufusCat]

…..there are a few ex-keepers who become football managers. Indeed I think Nuno Espírito Santo was a keeper.

Mike Walker - close thread

 

[perth_blue]

This makes some sense to me. Given that the goal keeper is integral to the set piece.

You'd also think that a goalkeeper operating at their best have to read the game and be alert for the whole 90 minutes most of that as an observer which would give them insights into how outfield players move, react, and organise themselves. So yes, a good intelligent keeper with good communications and people skills having picked up a knowledge of tactics could indeed be a good coach. Dino Zoff comes to mind and I am sure there are others.

Always feel that keepers and centre halfs make the better managers due to the above.

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

…..there are a few ex-keepers who become football managers. Indeed I think Nuno Espírito Santo was a keeper.

Mike Walker.....

 

[Alanbileysfeathercut]

Big Nev speaks a lot of sense....need a bigger couch,but he'd be interesting