2025/26 Jordan Pickford

Wasn’t watching Soccer Saturday, but apparently Merson said it’s the best save he’s ever seen.

Mind you, I don’t think he can hold more than the current round of fixtures in his head.

tbf as soon as that left Tonalis foot i though go....didn't even get a chance to say goal as it was hit with so much venom and power. It truly was a world class save. His reactive time had to be well less than half a second.

90% of keepers wouldn't have even moved
 
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There’s no English keeper anywhere near him.
I'm not English (Irish, actually, so I might be a little biased against the English for complex historical or unspecified and irrational DNA reasons). I was also a goalie in my time at Mickey Mouse level. But I will say this: You don't really need to include the word "English" in your quote above. There are very few goalkeepers ANYWHERE in his class. For a country that has a ridiculous tendency to declare every mediocre midfielder or forward you have as "world-class", it's bizarre that this working class, authentic no-airs-and-graces lad with his feet on the ground isn't eulogised in the way "Shilts" and others were.

"Great save by Dasaev. And that's why he's rated as the world's number two" - Tony Gubba on Rinat Dasaev versus Enzo Scifo and Belgium, 1986.

That was the level of ludicrousness at play. And Gubba wasn't referring to Southall as number one...

Jordan Pickford. The only world-class Everton player of the 21st century (that wasn't a teenage Wayne Rooney or a semi-retired James Rodriguez).
 
tbf as soon as that left Tonalis foot i though go....didn't even get a chance to say goal as it was hit with so much venom and power. It truly was a world class save. His reactive time had to be well less than half a second.

90% of keepers wouldn't have even moved
Yeah, my brain couldn’t compute it.

I was still thinking “crap,” when it’d already pinged off the bar and Pickford was getting up to do his Popeye thing.
 
Yeah, my brain couldn’t compute it.

I was still thinking “crap,” when it’d already pinged off the bar and Pickford was getting up to do his Popeye thing.

Yeah same mate, my brain didn't compute that it had been saved and kept out. It was too quick to compute. It was Southall like in every single way imaginable, I can't pay a higher compliment than that.

It was bloody ridiculous it really was.
 
Yeah same mate, my brain didn't compute that it had been saved and kept out. It was too quick to compute. It was Southall like in every single way imaginable, I can't pay a higher compliment than that.

It was bloody ridiculous it really was.
Something about getting just enough on it to touch it onto the bar - rather than cleanly over - makes it even better, too.
 

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