PEPE REINA

José Manuel Reina Páez or most famously known as Pepe Reina replaced my favourite Jerzy Dudek after Liverpool won Champions League Final. There is nothing wrong with Jerzy but I guess the new coach Rafa Benitez favours him over Jerzy. Both are good keepers but you can only have one keeper at a time in a game. And you cannot change keeper just like you change defenders, midfielders or strikers throughtout the season so poor Jerzy had to sit on the bench.

I have some reservation about Pepe Reina. People said that he is a penalty specialist in spain. Okay I agree with that. He had shown it many times. So not to bad. But he is not THAT good in the air. You can see Liverpool struggle with set pieaces of crosses these days. Because Pepe Reina is quite short for a keeper. And he always in a hurry to release the ball back as soon as he catch it. Well you can do it couple of times in the game for tactical reason but not EVERYTIME?? hold your horses pepe reina...you have 6 seconds to hold the ball...But I let you get
away with it. As long as the liverpool keep winning. I dont have any quarrel. You should give credits to your defenders for working hard to keep you in a clean sheet.

SANDER WESTERVELD

SANDER WESTERVELD, is definitely one of my favorites keeper. But suprisingly after his successfull spell with liverpool winnig 3 trophies in one season namely FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup he only lasted for two seasons...

I just dont why...but I guess thats football. For me he is the best keeper I've seen after bruce and I so admire his composure..the way his stand in between the goalkeeper...the smoothness and the cleanliness when he rolls the ball to team mates...he is class!

But right after he was released to Real Sociedad, Liverpool knew that they let one of their gems away from them. Westerveld succeded in Real Sociedad taking the team to qualify for the champions league and finishing as a runners up in La Liga in 2002/2003 season...

For the record, he has won Liverpool League Cup, FA Cup, UEFA Cup, Charity Shield, European Super Cup

DAVID JAMES

Right after Bruce Grobelar, David James came to replace him. Well, I dont have anything against him, but I do have some reservation about him. He is not my type of goalkeeper...He is prone to some unbelievable mistake....he does not have the composure of what a goodkeeper should have..He does not have any single traits that bruce had...and he is known as Calamity James...

David James was born in 1 August 1970. He made his debut into Liverpool club on 16 August 1992. Besides from the nicknames Calamity James, he is also known as the spice boys ..together with Steve Mcmanaman and Robbie Fowler....He is tall and has every physical attributes to become a great keeper but somehow his mind is not that strong enough...no composure...no focus... distracted to somethig going on off the pitch...yes the spice girls thingy...

All in all, david james will register as one of my worst keeper to have ever played for liverpool and it is no wonder Liverpool slump during his years as the keeper. David Calamity James...

BRUCE GROBBELAR

well... for those who follow english premier league football in the 80's will know bruce grobbelaar..I was just a young kid then...Being a innocent kid back then, I just followed whatever my big brother did...so one of it was him being a fan a bruce grobbelar....we were and still a die hard fans of Liverpool. Liverpool was top in the 80's...and bruce was in his finest form...

bruce grobbelaar was born in 1957...he was the keeper of Zimbabwe...(Zimbabwe?? can you imagine that...we never heard of any good players from Zimbabwe these days). Grobbelaar signed for Liverpool for £250,000 on 17 March 1981 as their reserve goalkeeper. At that point in time Ray Clemence was still the first choice keeper. But his move to Spurs paved the way to bruce to become Liverpool's first choice keeper

What I like about Bruce was his humor. Being a goalkeerper myself, I know that is good trick to get the defender to cooperate with you when you give instructions to them. Being defenders is not easy I must say....they need to keep their positioning, keep their lines, shove the opposition strikers, being knocked by the ruthless strikers...so the keeper really need to give some sympathy for them whenever it is due...you can scold them when they made mistake...but when they do something good....smile at them..give them pat at the back...I tell you...you will be surprise by the new energy they show when you did that and they will defend well...