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.

We’re not quite sure where this video has come from (please use the comments box to fill us in!) but someone emailed us the link to this goalkeeping mistake. Errors and Great Mistakes usually make us blush and we feel somewhat sorry for the goalkeepers usually understandable mistake. However, in this instance, it is difficult [...]

Shay Given has had a long career with Newcastle United, and has been perhaps the most consitant goalkeeper in the Premier League for the entire period. However, even he doesn’t have eyes in the back of his head.

You only make this sort of error once. Fortunately.

Watch Thomas Kuszczak of Poland (and Man United) make an uncharacteristic error in this match against Columbia.

The other ‘keeper, however, looks pretty pleased with how his day is going.

Fabien Barthez, not once, but twice gives his French countryman Thierry Henry a gift in this triple threat of goalkeeping madness. Man United fans never really forgave the ebulient Frenchman for these mistakes against their main league rivals Arsenal.

It happens to the best of us!

Sorry, David Seaman, we had to put this video in! When England took on lowly Macedonia in the qualification stages of Euro 2004 (2002) David Seaman made his last performance in an England shirt after letting in this corner direct.

The man on the far post (Paul Scholes) makes [...]