Wonder why the Is My Team Ploughing thread got closed down? Much interested in Housman & football, esp Shropshire Lad xvii: 'Twice a week the winter thorough Here stood I to keep the goal'. As an ex-goalkeeper myself tho you wouldn't believe it to see me now [Hendon County School 1st XI, 1949-50], it makes the ShropLad, & I suspect Housman himself [cf the bit about the goalkeeper in Team Ploughing], one of gems of my collection of goalkeepers: Albert Camus [played for Algeria], A Conan Doyle [played for Portsmouth], Che Guevara, all Three Tenors [Carreras signed amateur forms for Barcelona], Pope John-Paul II, Nabokov, A H Clough, Boris Becker who opted for tennis tho, Max Schmelling ditto boxing ...

Any folkie goalkeepers to join me out there?

And, to keep this thread above line: "I'm football crazy, I'm football mad..."