It's Case of Keepers Weepers for Kiev's Smart Olek Goalie ; Fortune Favours the Brave As Stoke City Up the Tempo to March On in Europe. Michael Baggaley Reports
Sentinel, The; Stoke-on-Trent (UK) › December 02, 2011
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FOOTBALLERS don't usually like tempting fate - an attitude summed up by former England international Paul Gascoigne, who once said: "I don't make predictions and I never will."
So maybe we shouldn't be too harsh on Dynamo Kiev goalkeeper Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, who, when asked in the pre-match press conference how he thought this game would go, replied rather bluntly: "I'm not a fortune teller." Indeed he's not. However, a chat to other European keepers to have visited the Britannia Stadium would have told him fate does not often smile on the visiting custodian.See the full content of this document
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It's Case of Keepers Weepers for Kiev's Smart Olek Goalie ; Fortune Favours the Brave As Stoke City Up the Tempo to March On in Europe. Michael Baggaley Reports
In fact, a cloudy crystal ball would usually predict a goalkeeper's experience against a Britannia bombardment as being like a hapless juggler being trampled by a herd of wildebeest.
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