3rd day into the World Cup and it seems that the goalkeepers are playing their role. On one hand you have Robert Green (England) and Faouzi Chaouchi (Algeria) who allowed really soft goals that cost their team valuable points, on the other hand you have Vincent Enyeama who saved his team from a terrible defeat when stopping Leo Messi and the Argentinian strikers time after time.Goalkeeper is a cruel role, if a striker misses a wide open shoot nobody remembers that after the game, but if a goal keeper makes one mistake he's scarfed for life. l mean look at what the British media is doing to Green, feel bad for the guy.
In England's case, there has been a tragic Hero in every big tournament since the 1996.
1996 Euro-Gareth Siuthgate misses a penalty in the semi final against Germany
1998 World Cup- David Beckham gets a stupid red card to leave his teammates playing a man down to lose to Argentina
2002 World Cup- David Seaman helps Ronalidinho score and the English team goes home in the quarter finals
2004 Euro- David Beckham again as the tragic hero with a penalty miss against Portugal in the quarter finals.
Now we'll just have to wait and see, if Green gets another chance in goal cause unlike Algeria, England has real expectations from their team to bring in the cup back home from the first time since 1966. David Games is waiting for his chance which may come earlier then he expected.
I hope for Mr. Green that he won't become England's 2010 World Cup Tragic Hero.