'While the average age for outfield players has been continuing to increase, the average age for goalkeepers seems to have plateaued a little.' twoht
Goalkeepers are different, they say. Goalkeeping, we’re led to believe, is a specialist field in which players mature at a later age but have a longer shelf life because they haven’t been chasing round in circles for years putting considerable strain on their knee joints. The goalkeeper, we’re reliably informed, is usually the older, slightly more experienced professional.
There seems little question that the playing career of the professional player is longer than it ever used to be. Improvements in training and conditioning have ensured that, quite likely alongside considerable improvements in our understanding of the human body and significantly better health. It seems inconceivable, for example, that a player would, as Stanley Matthews did at the peak of his playing career.
Four years later, Peter Shilton was closing in on his 41st birthday when he performed his impersonation of a sack of potatoes repeatedly falling over sideways during England’s World Cup semi-final penalty shootout against West Germany. And as recently as 2010, when Robert Green had his oopsie moment for England in the World Cup finals against the USA, the 39-year old David James was brought in to replace him rather than the then-23-year old Joe Hart.
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