Goalkeeping Museum

Mistakes, blunders and bloopers – usually on video – from the history of goalkeeping in soccer (football). See the keepers at their worst! Get ready to cringe.

David James, like most goalkeepers (ourselves included) from time-to-time probably fancies himself as a good outfield player. What better way to show your nimblefootedness than when an opportunity presents itself to join your boys out in the field in the desperate hunt for a much needed goal? Well, when, in doing so, you get the [...]

When Liverpool play Everton, as a goalkeeper, you don’t want to make an error. As always, in goal, mistakes prove costly, this one didn’t win Jose Manuel Reina any fans in the red of Liverpool as they went 2-0 against their arch rivals from the other half of the city.

David Seaman, of Arsenal, had got to within 20 seconds of a Penalty Shootout in the Cup Winners cup final of 1995 when Nayim, of Real Zaragoza hit this speculative effort which found Seaman adrift of his line, and slightly flat footed returning to turn the ball over. The end result being a spectacular goal. [...]

Look at this collection of goalkeeping errors – some of these mistakes are incredible, there are a couple of repeat offenders, and it is a generally painful video to watch. fun all the same to realise that blunders and bloopers are a part of football – every good goalkeeper has come back from an error [...]

Gigi Buffon is an excellent goalkeeper. He is also human:

Juventus have definitely seen him in a better light since then. Although…

All of England are spending this summer thinking of higher things than football, as the side dramatically failed to qualify for Euro 2008. While Scott Carson is hardly responsible for the five game plus period of melancholy from the England team as a whole, that does not make this error any the more pleasant on [...]