Another legend departs!
It can’t be overstated how integral Eddie has been to all our recent success.
He was central to the way we played, and completely revolutionised the role of the keeper in English football.
When he arrived, playing out from the back was laughed at as an absurdist European conceit that would never work in England - now, every team in the League plays that way.
His ice cold calmness under pressure was a thing to behold, drawing opposition players onto him like moths to a flame - which created all the space we needed for our dazzling army of attacking talent to shine.
He’s a unique keeper - irreplaceable in terms of his specific combination of skills - and we won’t be the same team without him.
That’s evolution though, and the time was clearly right as he’d made the decision to take on a fresh challenge - but we will forever look back on his time at the Club as a golden era of unparalleled success.
He was our keeper when we won the lot.
I wish him all the best for the rest of his career, but he’ll always be a Blue to me.