04-08-2023, 13:14
It is a question that not only besets William Shatner, it is also permanently hovering on the lips of every Spireite.
I spent a large part of last season warning anyone who would listen that our cardboard keeper would crumple under pressure and let us down big time when it mattered. As I'm usually wrong that should have been enough to prevent it coming true, but naturally life being what it is I turned out to be 100% correct for once!
Now we have signed a very promising young keeper on loan, who seems to meet the criteria I would lay down for a successful season AND now we have added Ryan Boot, who has for several seasons been one of the best keepers at our level and is still only 28.
So now as if to exorcise the ghost of last season, who froze as the penalties flew past him, we have salved the hurt with a double dose of cream. Unfortunately not even Arnica could do much about last season's extensive bruising. Could it be that, after several seasons of not appreciating the importance of a keeper, we have finally got the message that for a club like Chesterfield should in any case have been part of our DNA? After all we did produce the two greatest keepers who ever lived.
What's the betting we concede due to a goalkeeping error against Dorking?
I spent a large part of last season warning anyone who would listen that our cardboard keeper would crumple under pressure and let us down big time when it mattered. As I'm usually wrong that should have been enough to prevent it coming true, but naturally life being what it is I turned out to be 100% correct for once!
Now we have signed a very promising young keeper on loan, who seems to meet the criteria I would lay down for a successful season AND now we have added Ryan Boot, who has for several seasons been one of the best keepers at our level and is still only 28.
So now as if to exorcise the ghost of last season, who froze as the penalties flew past him, we have salved the hurt with a double dose of cream. Unfortunately not even Arnica could do much about last season's extensive bruising. Could it be that, after several seasons of not appreciating the importance of a keeper, we have finally got the message that for a club like Chesterfield should in any case have been part of our DNA? After all we did produce the two greatest keepers who ever lived.
What's the betting we concede due to a goalkeeping error against Dorking?