Goalkeeping Museum

Mistakes, blunders and bloopers – usually on video – from the history of goalkeeping in soccer (football). See the keepers at their worst! Get ready to cringe.

David James, like most goalkeepers (ourselves included) from time-to-time probably fancies himself as a good outfield player.
What better way to show your nimblefootedness than when an opportunity presents itself to join your boys out in the field in the desperate hunt for a much needed goal? Well, when, in doing so, you get the ball. [...]

When Liverpool play Everton, as a goalkeeper, you don’t want to make an error. As always, in goal, mistakes prove costly, this one didn’t win Jose Manuel Reina any fans in the red of Liverpool as they went 2-0 against their arch rivals from the other half of the city.

David Seaman, of Arsenal, had got to within 20 seconds of a Penalty Shootout in the Cup Winners cup final of 1995 when Nayim, of Real Zaragoza hit this speculative effort which found Seaman adrift of his line, and slightly flat footed returning to turn the ball over. The end result being a spectacular goal.
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Look at this collection of goalkeeping errors – some of these mistakes are incredible, there are a couple of repeat offenders, and it is a generally painful video to watch. fun all the same to realise that blunders and bloopers are a part of football – every good goalkeeper has come back from an error [...]

Gigi Buffon is an excellent goalkeeper. He is also human:

Juventus have definitely seen him in a better light since then. Although…

All of England are spending this summer thinking of higher things than football, as the side dramatically failed to qualify for Euro 2008. While Scott Carson is hardly responsible for the five game plus period of melancholy from the England team as a whole, that does not make this error any the more pleasant on [...]

We’re not quite sure where this video has come from (please use the comments box to fill us in!) but someone emailed us the link to this goalkeeping mistake.
Errors and Great Mistakes usually make us blush and we feel somewhat sorry for the goalkeepers usually understandable mistake. However, in this instance, it is difficult to [...]

Shay Given has had a long career with Newcastle United, and has been perhaps the most consitant goalkeeper in the Premier League for the entire period. However, even he doesn’t have eyes in the back of his head.

You only make this sort of error once. Fortunately.

Watch Thomas Kuszczak of Poland (and Man United) make an uncharacteristic error in this match against Columbia.

The other ‘keeper, however, looks pretty pleased with how his day is going.

Fabien Barthez, not once, but twice gives his French countryman Thierry Henry a gift in this triple threat of goalkeeping madness. Man United fans never really forgave the ebulient Frenchman for these mistakes against their main league rivals Arsenal.

It happens to the best of us!