We just picked up the ball and wasted another five or six or eight seconds; now there's always the risk of error."But the biggest factor is the ball It is a joke - on goalkeepers There is nobody who is not vulnerable to the modern ball It's become a lethal weapon. The old ball didn't move unless you were playing in thin air like Mexico Now it moves like a beach ball, it's so thin. You always had a decision to make, but now you have this split second to decide, 'Do I catch or parry?' It's almost impossible I spoke to Jens recently. He said: 'You just have to make your mind up to parry'."A goalkeeper relies on his footwork and position. You start to move your feet, then the ball takes off and you can't get in the extra beat.
Or you are in line and once it starts to move human nature makes you panic and your head moves, or whatever, and suddenly it's hit your shoulder."Bending the ball the way Beckham or Roberto Carlos do is a fantastic skill, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about someone who just wellies it at 70 to 80 mph and somewhere on its flight it does something There was a whole series of them in the Champions' League. Juninho's goal for Lyon against Werder Bremen started in the middle and finished in the far corner."Roy Carroll and Jerzy Dudek were blamed for goals they conceded, but the ball moved in each case It doesn't have to move much. If you are in position, even fractional movement can defeat you It is like the late movement of a swinging ball in cricket. Cech had a similar situation in Barcelona but one of his defenders bailed him out. You just hope somebody does."For Wilson, who now spends much of his time on the Willow Foundation, the charity he formed after the death of his daughter, Anna, to improve the lives of young adults with terminal illnesses, this development is not a surprise."When David Seaman was at Arsenal this American guy from Nike brought these modern balls in for us to try out.
We all had a go, telling him the balls were ridiculous, they moved all over the place. He came out with all these theories about perfect flight so we stuck him in the goal and hit some at him. He went off with his tail between his legs."But they want bums on seats, they want entertainment That means goals, as people won't come for a boring 0-0 Tampering with the ball is a way to ensure errors Sadly for the art of goalkeeping, it makes you look a fool. Goalkeepers always made errors, even ones like Banks, Schmeichel, Seaman, Jennings.
