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Tuesday, 17 September, 2002, 09:55 GMT 10:55 UK
Your tales of own goal woe
Villa goalie Peter Enckelman lets the ball squirm under his foot to score a disastrous own goal for arch rivals Birmingham City.
Can you sympathise with Enckelman's plight? And where does his howler rank alongside other memorable own goals?
Enckelman isn't the first player to score for the other side and he certainly won't be the last, but his own goal has to be one of the most stunningly stupid examples of its kind. A tame throw-in from Olof Mellberg should have been easy for the Finn to trap underfoot and punt upfield - but it squirmed underneath and rolled into the back of the net. The debacle brings to mind other stunners, like Man City midfielder Jamie Pollock's wonder goal for QPR - it kept the Hoops in Division One, but condemned his own team to relegation. From the top-flight to the pub team, send us your favourite own goals.
This debate is now closed
I was in the QPR end to witness Jamie Pollock's spectacular own goal that kept the R's up. A goal of the season candidate - up there with Gazza's goal in Euro '96 against Scotland.
It wasn't the only howler in that game. I remember the other goal was an indirect free kick in the box. The goalie put the ball down for QPR to take it quickly and tap it into the unguarded net.
Scotland v Wales at Hampden, 1978. With about a minute to go Scotland lead 1-0. Wales have just missed a penalty and concluded it isn't to be their day - until Willie Donachie gets in on the act. Scotland keeper Jim Blyth throws the ball out to Donachie, who's standing at the edge of the penalty area. Donachie knocks the ball back to Blyth without looking up, and as a result fails to see that the keeper has moved across to the far side of the area.
The ball goes straight into the empty goal to level the match. (Of course, things went downhill after that - the least said about that summer's World Cup, the better...)
About 15 years ago I started playing football for a youth team as a six-year-old. My dad was a rugby man, so all I knew was how to kick a ball from practice - formation and tactics were beyond me.
So when I was thrown in at left back, during one very important game, I was being chased back towards my keeper by two attackers. I panicked, and instead of passing to the keeper I smashed it into the roof of the net from 18 yards...I've now been playing centre-forward for the last 10 years!
Being a goalie myself I can sympathise with Enckelman's (hilarious) blunder, as it comes with the position. I think next time Gary Neville fails to control a pass in a similar fashion, I can guarantee he won't get the same amount of criticiscm (which he deserves).
Enckelman's goal was quite impressive, but no-one scores an own-goal like Frank Sinclair!
I learned a very important lesson when playing 'social' football many years ago....ALWAYS look before attempting even the most simple of back-passes, especially if your keeper is a smoker! Our keeper had had a quiet time and, as a result, left his goal to go over to a spectator (actually a man walking his dog but we liked to pretend!) to pinch a light for his cigarette!
I will carry the image forever of the ball gently rolling over the line whilst gazing to the left to see our keeper - fag in mouth, hands cupped around someone's lighter!
Many years ago, I saw a TV program showing "great" own goals. One that I remember was on a windy day, and the goalkeeper's cap blew off, landing in the goal. He calmly went and picked it up, but was unfortunately holding the ball at the time.
I believe it was 1983. The New York Cosmos were playing Team America and the "Kaiser" Franz Beckenbauer, without looking, decides to volley the ball back to his keeper, who stands helplessly frozen as the ball sails over his head into the net. A true classic! Does anyone else remember this or was it a dream?
What about Dion Dublin for Coventry against Shay Given (I think he was still at Blackburn at the time)? Given caught the ball in a goalmouth melee, and Dublin, trying to get his head on the ball ran out of touch. Given then rolled the ball on the ground in order to hoof it and Dublin coolly appeared from nowhere to whack it in.
Jeff Agoos of the USA's own goal in World Cup 2002 was absolutely spectacular!
Scott Nisbet for Rangers versus Celtic in 1995 - he lobbed Andy Goram from 35-yards to cap a 3-0 victory for the Celts! Fantastic! Butcher and Gough were always good for a goal for Celtic too though!!!
I remember a few years ago I was in goal on a very windy day. It was summer so the ground was very hard, and a ball was humped forward, causing me to run out to intercept. Unfortunately, the ball caught the wind, bounced over me and flew into the net. What made it worse was it was a local derby and we ended up losing by that goal!
My favourite was at last summer's World Cup. Both the USA and Portugal managed to score an own goal for each other. The goal that Jeff Agoos scored was brilliant, any striker pointed in the correct direction would have been proud to score like that. I was hoping that Agoos would have transferred to Leicester City to pair up with own goal machine Frank Sinclair. But it was not to be.
I am a goalkeeper myself and ashamed to say that I have had many howlers. Once when we were winning a theatrical scissor kick to clear my line but completely missed the ball and it ended up in the back of the net. To make matters worse I broke my wrist and we ended up losing the game. That's just one example of many, perhaps I should just give up!
Can't believe nobody's mentioned Massimo Taibi's howler at Old Trafford against Southampton, Matt Le Tissier scored some fantastic goals over the years, but he will be most remembered for the worst shot he ever hit in his life.
The most hilarious own goal I've ever (not) seen was when I was playing in a friendly match between my university and another uni. The opposition keeper easily gathered a tame shot from one of our strikers and stood up with the ball safely in his arms.
While we turned to run back upfield, a chorus of groans made us turn around again. We were treated to the sight of their keeper lying on the ground miles inside his own goal, with the ball still in his hands. Apparently he had tripped over his own laces and had fallen over backwards into the goal. Brilliant!
The worst aspect of the Enckelman mistake was the disgraceful reaction of the Birmingham fans, especially the one who stood in front of him making "hand gestures". This lunatic then proceeded to tap him on the face.
What action will Birmingham take against this person and the others that invaded the pitch on at least four occasions. A very serious situation was averted by Enckleman's refusal to be goaded and he deserves great credit for retaining his dignity in the face of extreme provocation.
Mid 1990's, Ipswich hanging on for a one-all draw at home to Norwich. We get a corner in the last couple of minutes, the ball comes over and Gary Megson comes up with a bullet header into his own net to win the game for the Blues. A couple of years later, with the same match again poised delicately at 1-1 with not long remaining, a harmless backpass from Robert Ullathorne hit a bobble just as Bryan Gunn in the Norwich goal was about to blast it clear.
The keeper fell on his backside and could only watch in horror as the ball trickled in, to give Town another totally undeserved victory over their local rivals. Oh how we laughed...
Two of my favourites were from the 1970s. A Leicester player (Keith Someone - Weller? - used to wear tights when it got a bit chilly), curling the ball inside his own far post hitting a back pass from the touch line.
But funnier still was a Home international game - Scotland (I think) were playing out time defending a 1-0 lead. After rolling the ball to several of his defenders and happily accepting the subsequent back passes, the keeper was a little shocked to see his left-back hit the ball just a bit too far away from him to provide a dramatic last-minute equaliser!
Watching Derby County in the early 1990s, I remember central defender Andy Comyn coming on in the second half, and 17 seconds later, with his first touch, sending a beautiful looping header into his own net.
For a man with a university degree, this was a bit daft.
Ronnie Whelan's 30-yard lob over the helpless Bruce Grobbelaar at Old Trafford in 1990 is one that I will never forget. There wasn't a Man United player near him but he hit so sweetly and with such accuracy it was untrue - Brucie didn't stand a chance.
I wasn't smiling at the time but, thankfully, it was only a consolation for Man United and we still won 2-1.
We were playing in a school match when a long ball was launched into our half. Our centre-back had plenty of time to clear the ball but instead lobbed our keeper, gifting the opposition a goal! On asking him what he was playing at, he replied "I had no where else to kick it!" I'm still bemused to this date.
Back in Ireland as a lad, I was watching Shamrock Rovers v Tullamore in the FAI cup. Rovers were taking a corner, which was floated in onto the penalty spot when suddenly a Tullamore defender tried to overhead kick the ball away from an advancing forward.
Instead, it went flying into the top corner Hugo Sanchez style and I nearly choked to death on my Bovril! Hilarious!
The best own goal I remember is about five years ago when Norwich were away to Ipswich with the game stuck at 1-1 and about three minutes left on the clock.
A Norwich player under no pressure passed the ball back to Bryan Gunn in goal, who was also under no pressure, went to clear the ball, but managed to totally miss it and the ball just rolled in, for a goal.
On the subject of great keeper blunders, the funniest one I remember was when Stan Collymore hit a tame shot along the ground at Tim Flowers. It rolled straight towards him, and as he went to pick it up it hit a tuft in the ground and dipped over his head. The look on Flowers' face was priceless!
Some are saying that Encky did not touch the ball. If he didn't, why did he try to stop the ball going in the net and why was he distraught when it did...All goalkeepers know the rule about goals from throw-ins.
Ultimate GK error was Craig Forrest's classic goal, when he was playing for Canada I believe. He picked the ball up, went to throw it out, threw it into the ground in front of him which had been cut up by the mud and it flew back into his own goal... I still laugh now!!
As Ruud Gullit once said: "Goalkeepers are footballers who couldn't make the grade on the pitch", so let's not blame them when their feet go wrong!!
Willie Donachie's playing for Scotland against Wales in 1978, just before the Argentina World Cup. A long back pass to Alan Rough that went horribly wrong....a sign of things to come.
Being a Crewe fan, I reckon that Cardiff City's Andy Legg own goal against Crewe in the FA Cup was a good one. Under no pressure, he passes the ball back to the keeper only for it to go into the net.
I can't believe no-one has mentioned the Man City one from, I think, last season. The defender, attempting a massive clearance, succeeded in hitting it against another player and lobbing the poor keeper from about 40 yards. Lauren and Hardy wouldn't have even dared write it! At school I had the reputation of being a poor footballer, mainly because I was first in class exams, and despite the fact I used to score a cartload in any game I played in, and I played for the school team on many occasions. In one match, the opposing goalkeeper took a goal kick and mis-hit it to me as I was making my way back to the halfway line. I jumped on the opportunity and chipped the ball over the guy into an empty net.
Did I get praise? No, all the spectators assumed that I must have been on the other side and chipped my own keeper and 'congratulated' me on my own goal after the match. They must have missed the other three I scored.
Enck cant have it both ways - if he knows the rules, as he claims - why did he look so distraught when the ball went in and not complain to the ref. It gave us baggies a great laugh
Sandy Brown in a Merseyside derby 1970 - watch out for the policeman walking behind the goal - he is laughing fit to burst. Legend has it that when Brown was asked to go for a drink in the Winslow pub but says "No, I'm heading the other way".
Forget the football laws, the golden rule of football: never, never, never, never throw the ball towards the net, just in case....then it rolls out of play! Get it? I had a defender throw the ball straight to an opponent standing fifteen yards in front of me. Goal!
How about Willie Donachie's 25 yard precision back pass into his own goal playing for Scotland in the 1978 Home Championships? He was in such a safe position that the Scotland keeper (for once!) wasn't to blame as he idly stamped the divots back into place as Willie was rolling the ball into the net. When playing for my school team, being short of left sided players I volunteered to switch from my normal role of striker to play left-back. Under pressure about 50yrds from my own goal, I managed to turn the opposition's attacker.
Attempting to hit the ball back to my keeper I flicked the ball up and hit it full on the volley. The ball travelled at some speed thumping against the bar, hitting our keeper in the back of the head, before flying in to the back of the net. I wish I could have done that kind of thing when playing up front.
As much as I continue to laugh at Enckelman's hilarious blunder, I feel someone should praise him on his conduct after the goal. To not react when being abused right in front of his eyes must have taken courage and enormous self-discipline. Many other players (Keane) should take note.
Already, people have stated the same goal that I'm about to... Ronnie Whelan's classic lob over Brucie Grobbelaar!!
Is everybody missing the point here??? As a football fan, I was sickened by some of the carry-on of the Birmingham fans last night. I notice that the BBC are very fast to jump on the Roy Keane, Patrick Vieira and David Beckham bandwagons and ask their readership they should be banned. But when something really serious happens on a football pitch (like that stupid Birmingham fan who ran on to the pitch after Enckelman's howler and proceeded to make hand gestures in front of the poor guy who must have wished that the ground would open up and swallow him, without so much as a steward in sight), these matters are not addressed.
C'mon everybody, consistency please; just because the guy made a mistake doesn't mean that he should be subjected to such shameful scenes without protection from the stewards.
I will always remember Taibi against Southampton. Le Tissier kicked a soft shot and it ran straight through Massimo's legs!
Not an own goal, but I can remember screaming til I was blue to warn Shay Given at Newcastle that Dion Dublin was out of play behind the goal line.
As Given dropped the ball to play it to the edge of the area, up pops the big guy from behind to tuck it back past him, leaving the 'keeper with an expression now to be known as an 'Enckelman'.
Careless hands ... Gary Sprake of Leeds United and Wales, in front of the Liverpool Kop in 1967, throwing the ball into his own net. Who says you can't score direct from a throw?
I recall back in 1955, Gill Merrick having an absolute howler when he scored an own goal in the corresponding fixture that year playing for Birmingham City.
His own goal resulted from his misjudgement of a goal kick from Nigel Sims. The ball bounced in front of him a lot higher than he expected. He managed to get a finger tip to the ball but this only helped the ball into the net. If he had not touched the ball then a goal could not have been scored.
What about the game at Arsenal in the late 1960s? Nil nil until the final whistle, or at least what the Arsenal defender with the ball thought was the final whistle. In fact it wasn't, just some hooligan in the crowd with a whistle 30 seconds before full time.
The defender, celebrating a - up till then - successful defence - turned and whanged the ball into his own net out of joie de vivre. That was it. 1-0 down. The quietest Arsenal crowd ever filing out of the ground that afternoon!
I once scored an own goal almost straight from the kick-off. I rolled the ball back to one of our defenders who in turn opened his legs to let it go back to our keeper.
What he didn't know was that our custodian was chatting to his girlfriend behind the goal and not paying attention and in it went!! It was so ridiculous even our manager started laughing.
Ronnie Whelan and Grobs - got to be one of the best ever. And is it my imagination, but did Nicky Tanner (what a player!) also score a cracker against Brucie in the early nineties?
I was making my first appearance as a guest for a team that I had been coaching for a few months. One of our attacks broke down and the opposition broke away quickly. An attacker was bearing down on our goal but I was chasing him in an attempt to get in a last ditch tackle.
As he reached the edge of the box I was just a yard behind him. He accidentally trod on the ball and fell forward flat on his face. The ball squirmed backwards, hit my shin as I was running and flew past the stranded goalkeeper.
Best OG ever has to be the Bryan Gunn incident in the East Anglian derby about six years ago (I think). The scores are level, and there's only about two minutes left. A Norwich defender passes the ball back from the half way line, not very hard though, and Gunn gets himself ready to launch it up field. Only problem is that the ball hits a divot just before he kicks it.
He makes a massive air shot, looks behind and sees the heading for the goal line. He scrambles back to try and clear it but only reaches the ball when it has crossed the line. Ipswich win and Gunn has a long shower to get the egg of his face. Priceless.
Terry Butcher did indeed score a few cracking own goals in his spell with Rangers. Not least a marvellous header playing against Celtic some time in the late 80s or early 90s. Just as well Butcher scored for us, because our team was so dire during that period that none of our forwards would have.
Wasn't it Steve Bruce who kicked up a stick the last time a foreign player (Kanu) scored from not knowing the rules? Bruce didn't threaten to take his team off this time though did he?
I also remember Paul Mooney's OG during the 1985 Irish Cup final. A cross from the right, no one near him and he blasts it past George Dunlop from 10 yards out. A cracker, and yes he is still called OG Mooney to this day, although he takes it well now.
Many goalkeepers have nearly done what Enckelman did. I've been to Newcastle matches where Shay Given has nearly let a pass back go over his foot. Yeah it is funny, but it's harsh on such an inexperienced goalkeeper.
I remember Terry Butcher's efforts as well. In 1986-87, both he and Richard Gough scored what can only be called text book diving headers - fearlessly throwing yourself at the ball and slamming it into the net. Memorable!
Hitting a 30 yard back pass on a club tour to Bath seemed innocent enough until I saw our goalie still drunk from the night before pointing at the ball and laughing, unable to move - 1-0 to the opposition and the quickest substitution of a keeper in living memory, 1 minute 47 seconds into the game....
Sorry to be a pedant, Mr Elgy (below), but it was Arsenal 0-3 Middlesbrough. Although I still claim we should've got the points since we scored more goals than they did.
Sure, He COULD have known the rules and COULD have looked shocked and pretended he didn't touch it. But...He didn't! And that's what makes it so, so, so funny! So let's just sit back and have a good old laugh! Funny stuff! And before you ask, yes, I do support Birmingham!
Enckelman wouldn't be the first player that didn't know the rules of the game. TV and radio is full of ex-players presented as "experts" who haven't got a clue about the laws of the game that they've played for years - Andy Townsend, Andy Gray, Bob Wilson...
Noel Whelan on his birthday in December 2000, playing for Middlesbrough against Coventry, the club he had left the previous summer. It was a far-post corner which he tried to clear and ending-up volleying an unstoppable shot into the roof of his own net.
The game ended 1-1. It didn't matter at the end of the season, but at the time Boro were really struggling and three points against fellow strugglers would have been most welcome!
Reggi Blinker's 30-yard headed own goal for Celtic against Aberdeen at Pittodrie in 1998 must be the best own goal ever....the game ended AFC 3-2 CFC, and Celtic missed 2 pens....brilliant!
Ronnie Whelan's classic lob over Grobbelaar at Old Trafford in the Eighties - stupendous.
Terry (Henry) Mancini, with a solid headed OG for Portsmouth sometime in the 70s. Terry was playing for the Orient at the time. The reason this goal still stands out so vividly in my mind was Terry's bald head.
A harmless shot was going wide, until Terry's shining head popped up glinting like a scud missile in the Fratton sun to divert the ball into the top corner. Nice one Terry, nice one son.
At least he doesn't play for the Columbian national team. What was the name of the guy who was shot for scoring an own goal at USA 94?
What about Ronnie Whelan's delicate chip over Bruce Grobbelaar's head...can't remember the year, but not even Bruce could have fixed that one.
Ever notice that goalies have a quick look behind themselves before bouncing/kicking the ball. They all have calamity Andy Dibble to thank for this one. Playing for Manchester City in the late 80's/early 90's against Nottingham Forest, I think, Dibble held the ball out in one hand ready to take a goal kick. The opposing player behind Dibble 'headed' the ball out of his hand and placed it into an unguarded net.
Outrage from us City fans, but no offence committed! The goal stands. Remember: keep both hands on the ball, and be aware who's 'behind you!!". Pure pantomime.
During his spell at Rangers, Terry Butcher scored more goals against Rangers than any other individual player. I think he managed five own goals in his time, the best being a 30-yard backwards looping header at Tannadice!!
Poor old Frank Sinclair is getting too many nominations, so here's another not mentioned yet. It was in his Chelsea days, and the ball was going towards the goal line at no great rate at all.
Our hero Frank, chasing back, could easily have stuck a foot round the ball and hooked it clear. NO - instead, he tried a back-heel clearance and managed to scuff it up and it ended up in the goal anyway. Why bother, Frank?
For me, the best own goal was scored by Partick Thistle against Dumbarton, some 10-12 years ago. A lob by the defender (don't expect me to remember the name of a Jags player) past his own goalkeeper from 20 yards.
The goal was bad enough, but to make matters worse it was the first goal I had seen scored by a Jags player, having watched them five or six times before. I am a Jags fan who lived in N. Ireland so watching them live was limited.
I am a bluenose, and although I shouldn't, I feel a little sorry for Enk. But it is about time we had a little bit of luck - we have gone 20 years without any. A few years ago I was playing for Colyton U-16s in a match against Sidbury U-16s and we were winning 2-1. Late in the second half, one of the opposing players hit a high through-ball, but hit it far too hard. After one bounce it seemed to be going straight into our goalkeeper's hands. However, our goalkeeper decided that rather than catching the ball he would head it in front of himself and then clear it up the pitch. Unfortunately he misjudged the bounce and ended up heading the ball backwards. He scrambled back to try and stop it going in, but to no avail.
The game ended 2-2. Our manager went nuts at him after the game, as did most of the players, but with hindsight it was very funny!
Lee Dixon, 50 yards from his own goal and under no pressure whatsoever, decides to be negative and lobs it back towards goal. Over hits it, lobs Seaman, blushes. Classic.
Enckelman never touched the ball, so the goal should not have stood. The ref was obviously too far away from the incident to clearly see what happened, so he went by the reaction of the keeper, who put his head in his hands and looked gutted. The fact that the keeper didn't know the rules is farcical! The best own goal I have had the pleasure of seeing was in the Bundesliga. Mario Basler was trying to clear his own penalty box. The ball floated in and came to Basler on the edge of the box, and instead of hooking it way, he thought he would be smart and volley it into Row Z.
Unfortunately, he caught it too well and it was a superb volley over the keeper's head into the back of the net. Stefan Klos, who was the keeper at the time, was far from amused.
I went through a memorable run a few years ago of three own goals in three matches - the first being a massive deflection that wasn't really my fault, the second a blistering header into the top corner and the third was a volley that I was actually quite proud of.
I scored a couple at the other end in that game though, so it was sort of a hat-trick - my own defenders started marking me after that!
Gary Stevens playing for Rangers against Dundee United at Tannadice. It was in the last minute of the game when he tried to chest it back to Nicky Walker in the Rangers goal but only succeeded in 'shouldering' the ball into the net...Ha ha.
Aston Villa will just have to accept that mistakes do happen in football...and sack Graham Taylor!
Talk of own goals reminds me of the best one that I ever witnessed. Back in the '70s. Crystal Palace were the visitors at White Hart Lane. Mel Blyth was their big centre-back, who, having clambered all over one of the Spurs forwards in the centre circle, booted the ball high, back towards his own keeper, expecting the ref to blow for a foul.
Unfortunately for him, the ref didn't, and instead blew for a goal as the ball sailed past the keeper and into the net from fully 50 yards! Fortunately for Mel, this wonderful piece of action was not televised.
Enckelman is a bigger fool for not knowing the rules. If the ball goes in directly from a throw in, it's a corner. It looked dubious as to whether he touched it or not but it was his reaction that made the referees mind up for him. If everyone involved had their wits about them then the corner would have been the correct outcome.
Alan Mullery scoring an own goal in less than ten seconds in a First Division match, despite his team kicking off. The opponents hadn't touched the ball and were one nil up!!
Roy Keane's own goal against Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final in 2000 is the one that stands out for me. In the true style of the "winner" Roy is, he got up, dusted himself down, went hell for leather back in to the game to atone for his error and promptly missed a sitter at the other end. Hilarious.
Arsenal v Sunderland in the 2000-2001 season. The match stats showed Sunderland only managed one shot on target in the whole game, but the final score was Arsenal 2-3 Sunderland, care of not one, but two brilliant own goals deflected past a hapless Seaman.
Leeds United - after winning the last First Div championship before the Premiership was introduced, they played Rangers in the old European Cup.
John Lukic managed to concede a goal at Ibrox by coming out to punch a corner only to be 'blinded' by the floodlights, and punch the ball into the back of the net. Nice!!!
I'm a rugby ref, and on Saturday last, I witnessed a kick ahead bounce erratically, resulting in a shoulder to shoulder charge for the ball. I didn't see who touched it down, but the reaction of both players told me who had, and I gave the try accordingly. The goalkeeper should know the laws, we refs try our best.
In the 1985 Irish Cup final replay, Linfield's Paul Mooney scored the winning goal against bitter rivals Glentoran - unfortunately for him it was past his own goalkeeper. He still hasn't shaken off the name O-G Mooney!
Gary Pallister's twenty yard screamer on the volley into his own net for Manchester Utd in the early 1990's. Classic.
Being a Birmingham City fan I have seen some great moments...but not in goal. I think it was the 94/95 season when we were in Div Two and we were away at Bristol Rovers.
The ball was played back to Ian Bennett in the goal, he took a run up to kick it back out, completely missed it and watched it trickle tamely in to the back of the net.
I was 16 years old and playing as centre-back in the semis of an inter-school tournament. I was running towards my goalie to have a word with him just as he was taking a goal kick. The ball seemed to be heading straight for my face, but I somehow managed to turn my head around. The ball hit the back of my head and went screaming into the top left hand of my goal.
Not only did we lose 2-1, but to top it off I couldn't play anymore because I managed to sprain my neck while scoring against my own team.
My favourite recent own goal was the fantastic own goal by Frank Sinclair from around 30 yards out. Only a player of Leicester City's calibre could achieve such a disaster. And of course, the match ended 0-1 just to rub salt in the wound. A relegation classic.
Liverpool's John Arne Riise's goal. He came off the bench to score a brilliant header against his own team. Mind you, I wasn't happy though!!
I could not believe my eyes last night when I saw a Premiership goalkeeper let in the worst own goal I have ever seen! After that, Enckelman looked liked a broken man, he made many more mistakes, and did not look comfortable in goal. I just hope Graham Taylor understands that mistakes do happen, and he should play Enckelman without thought. He is a good keeper, but he needs to put this behind him (like the ball).
But in all fairness I can say that the match last night was a real entertaining one and mishaps like that just made me want to watch more and more. Well done Birmingham!
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