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“All I thought was: ‘He’s got to have it in two hands,’” said Crosby, who would steal up behind Dibble before stooping to head the ball out of his grasp and tap into the net. Crosby, meanwhile, has said: “It’s the one thing I get remembered for.” Dibble, now 60, retired from professional football in October when knee replacement surgery prompted his departure from his role as Accrington Stanley’s goalkeeping coach.
He played for 18 clubs in a 24-year career that earned him three Wales caps.Gary Crosby heads the ball out of Andy Dibble’s right hand to score the only goal in Nottingham Forest’s win over Manchester City.René Higuita: Cameroon v Colombia, Jun 1990René Higuita was a goalkeeper ahead of his time: a sweeper-keeper in an era when they were still to be formally “invented”. “I was lucky as I’d played with Carlos Valderrama, Colombia’s captain, at Montpellier,” he said.
He’s in tears.” Sunderland’s manager, Régis Le Bris, who coached Meslier from childhood to young adulthood at Lorient, spent some time on the pitch hugging his former protege after the final whistle. An undeniably gifted keeper tipped as France’s future No 1 during Marcelo Bielsa’s Elland Road tenure is now third choice at Leeds.Illan Meslier looks back in despair after his error allows Sunderland’s Alan Browne to score.
