Was good in 2010/11 and 11/12. Was at the opening match v City in Aug 2010 which ended 0-0 and that was solely down to him.
Robbo's career went on a similar trajectory. One minute he was England's No1 and playing great, the next the goals are flying in from distance and his confidence and technique evaporated. Still loved the guy, obviously.
He played 3 games this season and they lost 2 of them, although that's probably due to them playing lot of other backup players, too. His next move is very important, but I suspect he'll go to another team's bench, unfortunately. He's English, homegrown and free, so some of the teams struggling with quotas will look at him. Possibly us.
Never seen highlights of the game but I seem to remember one particular great save from Defoe but that could just be match day excitement memories speaking
Was good on loan at Birmingham, then got his chance and took it at City was excellent initially (the game at The Lane as already been mentioned), and for a while was rightly the England keeper - where he would rank amongst England keepers in my lifetime would be somewhere in the middle with Robbo and Chris Woods, but some way behind Banks, Shilton, Clemence, and Seaman.
Robbos career took a beating from just before Ramos took over. Don't think he ever recovered from Schteve McLaren dropping him for the England Croatia match in Oct/Nov 2007 after he conceded an og in the previous England match...Gary Neville ? Club form imploded from then on. Was always weak on long distance shots...but a really decent bloke imo. Gutted when he left especially considering that Gomes was worse in my honest opinion (I think he came across as a decent bloke to).
I always thought we signed Gomes on the basis of his performance against us for Feyenord the save he made in that match from Malbranque was truly out of this world, I recall him having one worldie game for us too , fortunately it was against the Goons.
Gomes was a phenomenal shot stopper and penalty stopper with a crazy long throw, yet ask the guy to catch a ball and you’d be in trouble.
Was at that match...it was the one where Rose scored THAT goal! He made three outstanding saves tgat night ... all in front of us in Park Lane. That remsins the best goslkeeping performance I have ever seen live...the save from Campbell's header was eorth the entrance fee alone! Ten years on and I still can not believe he saved it tbh
I think of gomes as the david luiz of keepers. He was a phenomenal shot stopper and some of those saves hes pulled off i just couldn't think of anyone who could do it as regular as him. But every other game he would throw in a clanger and do something stupid. Unfortunately for keepers, its better to have a consistent guy who isnt a worldy than someone who is up and down
I tried to keep score and reckon he won a lot more points than he threw away. But I was the only one who thought that.
Yep, and it's why Brad Friedel was a welcomed addition despite being 39/40 when we signed him. He may not have pulled off a worldy like Gomes could but he was far more reliable (still pulled off some decent saves mind) and when in situations of defending corners or crosses, you never really felt concerned.
