Quote Originally Posted by Peter View Post
Funny that they criticise him for conceding at his near post and then in the same paragraph mention Bob Wilson, best remembered by the younger amongst us for being beaten at his near post in a cup final......

Almunia wasn't great but he wasn't as bad a people liked to claim.
The near post thing is one of those football cliches that really annoy me.

You could easily flip it and say he got beaten at the far post because he had the near post too well covered. Very rarely do keepers get beaten at the near post by some scuffed crap shot, it's almost always a perfectly timed and well hit strike that's past the keeper before he can do anything.