Like so many people, he's clearly a big admirer of world champion Mani Neuer's sweeper-keeper capers. Stockdale's showing off his new moves just to try and impress his new friend "ice-cold" Uwe Huenemeier.
He wasn't great either, from some of the games I saw. He'd do the difficult stuff well, then drop the occasional clanger, costing us points.
(See, this is how it works: when a player makes a mistake, people mention it and discuss it. That doesn't mean anyone's "on his case" or anything as...