Goalkeepers Are Fragile

Twas a bad week and weekend to be a goalkeeper for one of Europe’s monster teams, because you couldn’t run, couldn’t hide….nowhere was safe. And it wasn’t any on the field happenings, it was away from the field which felled Michael Rensing of Bayern Munich and Dida of Milan – despite nobody from Milan wanting him to be of Milan. And I think we need to have a vote as to which of these are more ridiculous.

Rensing somehow managed to hurt his back while bending over to tie his shoes last week, which is a helluva feat for a 23 year old athlete. Feel free to make all the geriatric jokes you want, but the 23yo with the fragile back had been necessarily replaced by 41 year old Bernd Dreher – all the more important because OK was battling the flu – which I’m sure made Rensing feel that much better. Dreher, undoubtedly pleased that he wasn’t the victim here, had his fun with the issue:

“A couple of days ago Michael hurt his back while tying his shoes. I’m confident he’ll be able to play, though. In an emergency we’ll find someone to tie his laces for him.”

Dida, on the other hand, is clearly being bitten in the ass by the Karma Monster, after his antics in Scotland earlier this year. This one is my personal favorite, as it happened during the game against Parma on Saturday, but Dida wasn’t playing, he was on the bench. At half time, Dida got up to go to the locker room and something yanked, pulled or whatever, and he ended up needing to be stretchered off from the bench. Seriously, you just can make this shit up.

So which goes down as the worst keeper injury of the week?

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Category: Bundesliga, Europe, Serie A