The thing about goalkeepers and indeed life in general is that you should ALWAYS judge a book by its cover. Judge people by appearances. Sure you might be wrong an odd time, but 98% of the time youâll be right.
The Gaelic football goalkeepers who make eejits of themselves going out into midfield and leaving an open goal behind them fall into two categories.
i) The thick looking fat lads who look like one of the Bash Street Kids. Lynchy and Big Bernie.
ii) The âathletesâ, the flappers, who are always flustered looking lads who look like a bird trying to escape from an attic. Theyâre frustrated footballers, in the words of Mick Lyons (Everton, not Meath). They tend to wear baseball caps on their heads even when outfield and specialise in sprinting into the stanchion at high speed as they fail to stop the ball being lobbed over them.
You can ALWAYS see it coming.
Modern Gaelic football tactics:
Getting 15 men behind the ball:
Leaving a completely open goal when youâre three points down with three minutes left:
Doon GAA isnât fit to hold a game of that level but if it was Munster would gladly hold it there. I imagine Dr Crokes capacity is 4k, of which it was pretty much full today.
Cork teams being given a chance or even being favourites going to Kerry in championship at any level is like when you get these US Senate elections in red states where Democrats are for some reason given a chance.
