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I'm sure that my comments will have me viewed by some as either a) wearing blue-tinted specs or b) sticking up blindly for a fellow keeper, but I actually agree that Stockdale didn't have a great game. His distribution wasn't up to his usual standards, he was hugely (though not uniquely)...

I've not seen the Heaton one, so can't comment on that. He may have been caught with his weight on the wrong foot, for sure, but he was stood pretty much exactly where (as a keeper) I'd have wanted to be. The ball went in a foot from the post. To have covered that, he'd need to have left the...

The header was right in the corner. No chance of saving it. The only possibility the keeper had of preventing that goal, would have been to come and try to claim the cross - yet (without any benefit of hindsight) to choose to do so would absolutely have been the wrong call. It was almost a...

Some very harsh judgments on Stockdale here. "had 2 things to do and ****ed both up"? :shrug: He clearly shares responsibility with Bruno for the calamitous first goal, but quite how anyone can point the finger at the keeper for the second is frankly bizarre.