Worst Goalkeeper

Stelea said:
Immel considering he was an ex German international was totally useless in the 96 relegation.
When I think about Immel, I just picture him stood there watching Giggs shot go in the top corner.
What makes the Immel thing worse was that Ball sold Coton to accommodate him!
Keith MacRea I didn’t really see play live apart from a few occasional appearances after 75 when Big Joe was injured. However, every time I watch an old Big Match from the early 70’s, City are usually losing 4-0 away at the likes of Birmingham and Stoke with MacRea being responsible for at least half the goals.
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Big Joe had more than his share of issues up to about '75 (not least his weight) and McRae was probably just about the better keeper. I've seen him pull off some miraculous saves. Joe knuckled down, worked his socks off and got back in the team and for the next 6 years or so was an exceptional keeper - undroppable.
 
Worst keeper in the Premier League:

M16 ORA, should be in Billy Smarts Circus, not the Sky Greatest Show on Earth, he’s a donkey
 
blue cigar said:
Margetson, like a young boy in goal
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Small for a keeper. I remember being behind the goal and you'd think he'd saved a fairly routine shot until with horror you realised it had somehow squirmed through or under him and was in the net.

The only keeper of ours I remember being subbed off at halftime against Everton at home. A 5-2 loss I think.
 
paulchapo said:
Seaman was dreadful for us, completely shot. I don't think he lasted the season but I may be wrong
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In his prime at Arsenal Seaman was a very competent keeper without doubt.
Took the piss taking at Highbury well from the City fans one year following a howler for England.The previous midweek I think he'd fucked up big time flapping at a shot from a Dutch player, so on the Saturday thousands of City fans waved their hands around and started singing 'let's all do the Seaman'
Agree that when he played for us he was well past his sell by date, he didn't even appear especially mobile anymore!
 
paulchapo said:
Seaman was dreadful for us, completely shot. I don't think he lasted the season but I may be wrong
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Think we had to get David James in halfway through the season as injuries finished off Seaman. Think we signed McMananan that summer as well on a free, god we did some awful business back then.
 
Dibble was also awful.

I was watching some old season reviews in the summer and some of the goals he let in were beyond belief.

His performance in that 3-3 Forest draw at home in 94 might be the worst performance I’ve ever seen from a City keeper.
 
I have two nominees, the first of whom is Margetson. My memory of him is that he occasionally displayed vague vestiges of competence, but when he was bad he was catastrophically so. The game against Everton on the last day of the 1992/93 season, when he had to be subbed for his own good at the break after being at fault for three goals and lucky to get away with other errors, was probably the worst goalkeeping display I've ever seen. It utterly defies belief that he then had five more seasons at the club, but the decision not to dispense with him eventually did come home to roost.

Margetson made two dreadful errors to cost us points in the relegation run-in when we went down to the third tier in 1998. One was the Easter game at Wolves where the home team levelled late on after Margetson kept them in the game with, if I recall correctly, a corner he dropped into his own net under no real pressure. The other, little remembered thanks to Jamie Pollock's amazing own goal in the same match, was against QPR in the final home fixture; he allowed them to equalise Kinkladze's early strike by idiotically picking up a backpass, then immediately handing over the ball so they could score from a quick free kick. They were two disastrous and abysmal pieces of goalkeeping within five games at such a crucial time for the club. If we'd had a competent back-up 'keeper at that time, I'm convinced we'd have survived.

The other one that strikes me as worth a mention is Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard. He had a career in the game so must have improved, but he was dreadful when, as a young player, he first made our team. In the old days, before goalkeeper subs, you occasionally used to see an injured goalkeeper replaced by an outfield player, and the whole rest of the team usually used to drop back, defending desperately in depth to protect the novice custodian. Ellegaard with us circa 2004 is the only specialist goalkeeper whom I can recall ever making his teammates adopt the same approach.
 
feedmpenzaandhewillscore said:
Think we had to get David James in halfway through the season as injuries finished off Seaman. Think we signed McMananan that summer as well on a free, god we did some awful business back then.
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Typical Keegan transfer business. Like the bloke who rocks up at a second hand car dealers wanting a Ferrari but only has £500 to spend.
 
petrusha said:
I have two nominees, the first of whom is Margetson. My memory of him is that he occasionally displayed vague vestiges of competence, but when he was bad he was catastrophically so. The game against Everton on the last day of the 1992/93 season, when he had to be subbed for his own good at the break after being at fault for three goals and lucky to get away with other errors, was probably the worst goalkeeping display I've ever seen. It utterly defies belief that he then had five more seasons at the club, but the decision not to dispense with him eventually did come home to roost.

Margetson made two dreadful errors to cost us points in the relegation run-in when we went down to the third tier in 1998. One was the Easter game at Wolves where the home team levelled late on after Margetson kept them in the game with, if I recall correctly, a corner he dropped into his own net under no real pressure. The other, little remembered thanks to Jamie Pollock's amazing own goal in the same match, was against QPR in the final home fixture; he allowed them to equalise Kinkladze's early strike by idiotically picking up a backpass, then immediately handing over the ball so they could score from a quick free kick. They were two disastrous and abysmal pieces of goalkeeping within five games at such a crucial time for the club. If we'd had a competent back-up 'keeper at that time, I'm convinced we'd have survived.

The other one that strikes me as worth a mention is Kevin Stuhr Ellegaard. He had a career in the game so must have improved, but he was dreadful when, as a young player, he first made our team. In the old days, before goalkeeper subs, you occasionally used to see an injured goalkeeper replaced by an outfield player, and the whole rest of the team usually used to drop back, defending desperately in depth to protect the novice custodian. Ellegaard with us circa 2004 is the only specialist goalkeeper whom I can recall ever making his teammates adopt the same approach.
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I was at that QPR game he couldn't have done more to help them if he'd had a QPR shirt on. We'd have definitely stayed up without his errors in goal. God those days seem light years away now. Some of our spoilt new fans that run online polls on who's the better player/who should play between Grealish and Doku should have been around back then!
 
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