- Feb 2, 2009
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My summary of Heurelho Gomes,
From the sublime to the ridiculous and sometimes displaying both characteristics in the same game.
On the one hand he often made the difficult stuff look easy (some fantastic reflex saves that earned us a few points or kept us in games). On the other hand he often made the easy and apparently straightforward stuff look difficult. (On too many occasions he contrived to let harmless shots slip through his fingers, and made a mess of the basics, corners and crosses, leading to us conceding soft goals and dropping points).
As for Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson ridiculing him as a clown, it's a bit rich, they had a keeper just as capable of the sublime and ridiculous just like Gomes,I.e Bruce Grobelaar. In many ways Gomes reminded me of Grobelaar on the field.
From the sublime to the ridiculous and sometimes displaying both characteristics in the same game.
On the one hand he often made the difficult stuff look easy (some fantastic reflex saves that earned us a few points or kept us in games). On the other hand he often made the easy and apparently straightforward stuff look difficult. (On too many occasions he contrived to let harmless shots slip through his fingers, and made a mess of the basics, corners and crosses, leading to us conceding soft goals and dropping points).
As for Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson ridiculing him as a clown, it's a bit rich, they had a keeper just as capable of the sublime and ridiculous just like Gomes,I.e Bruce Grobelaar. In many ways Gomes reminded me of Grobelaar on the field.