English goalkeeping on a high


Over the past two years, Manchester City keeper Joe Hart has earned a reputation as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.






Over the past two years, Manchester City keeper Joe Hart has earned a reputation as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
It has been reported in yesterday’s press that Birmingham City ‘keeper Jack Butland has turned down the opportunity to speak with Chelsea.
As far as prodigious goalkeepers go, Thibaut Courtois is up there with the the best.
The financial uncertainty surrounding Birmingham City is one of the worst kept secrets in football and the Premier League vultures are circling around to take their star players.
As England thrashed San Marino to get their World Cup qualification campaign back on track, it was refreshing to see so many notable Under-21 internationals take their place in the starting line-up.
Stuart Pearce and his Under-21 side booked themselves a favourable draw for the Euro2013 playoffs on Friday, despite the lack of starlets such as Oxlade-Chamberlain, Butland, and Kyle Walker, who have all been on full England duty.
With the Championship season kicking off on the same weekend as the Premier League and La Liga it was inevitably going to receive less coverage than the two biggest leagues in European football. However there is no doubt that the league deserves more respect as it is arguably one of the greatest leagues in the world, the slogan more commonly used to describe it's bigger brother.