It was just a general point

after a cup final of 3 silly goals conceded, its hardly talked about, when it was the basis of making the final as good as it was

I was saying, if that was james in goal, this site would go into meltdown about how s**t he is

Remember that goal Ashton scored against him? I remember the bbc pundits saying it was james's fault and he should have got to it. After they went on and on about it Hansen (who I don't have a lot of time for) just went "it was a class strike at the end of the day" and lineker went "it was"

You had an ex class defender and forward quietly telling the other two they were full of s**t. It was obvious they just wanted a dig at James whilst not knowing a great deal about the striker who scored it

And this is exactly how fans up and down the country format an opinion on something when they aren't totally watching said player. They listen to idiots like gray on sky and then sit down to watch a game or see the england squad and go "who's reo coker?" Yet they'll have plenty to say about it when a team doesn't perform

I like Reina, I haven't got a problem with him at all, I think he's adapted to English football, and Liverpools style of football brilliant (ie, you come out for every cross, no matter what, then your defenders know exactly what goes on. The same thing james was taught to do, badly at liverpool but carried on doing it till he got it right. His and Reina's stats I guess will be the highest for coming out and catching, their percentages will be lower for it easily, but that's the way they are trained, and is part and parcel of why Liverpool have had solid defences)

People decided to forget the towering performances by James. Turkey away 0-0, he was a giant in goal. The save at the stadium of light when england won 1-0

Instead you'll get the Denmark memories instead where Rio was at fault for both goals, but instantly people will look at james, just like millions did when Gerrard played that stupid ball to him in Euro 2000 against france

He's just a massive scapegoat

Posted By: pants on May 15th 2006 at 15:28:30

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