Heurelho Gomes Continues His Ode To Paul Robinson

By: chris | November 15th, 2008

Tottenham fans must’ve thought they were making an addition by subtraction in getting rid of Roboslop in the summer. Added bonus being his not-all-that-inexpensive replacement was fresh off an outstanding season in the No-D Eredivisie, so things were looking up. Well, it appears Gomes is just the Brazilian Robinson – though a few Brazilian keepers are known to be fantastic one minute, rubbish the next – and it’s Howlers R’Us between the Spurs sticks. Another horrible blunder today (0:25 in) cost his team points against Fulham, who won 2-1, and it’s about time to ask: Who’s he going to be backing up once the window opens?

Anyone have odds on Paul Robinson?

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Tags: 2-1, Blackburn, English Premier League, Fulham, goalkeeping blunder, Heurelho Gomes, Howler, Paul Robinson, Tottenham, World Football

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• Rob |  November 15th, 2008 at 9:32 pm

  
  
  

  He made two fantastic saves as well the poor soul. He seems to have constant lunacy peppered with occasional genius.

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• Izzy |  November 16th, 2008 at 1:13 am

  
  
  

  They should take Gomes to jail and finish him there.

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• Drabik |  November 16th, 2008 at 3:05 am

  
  
  

  I felt sorry for Gomes for the first time, after seeing his expression after that mistake. But Rob is right, he did do a couple of fantastic saves.

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• Brian |  November 16th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

  
  
  

  Well, if you’re talking about Robinson coming back, isn’t it against the rules for someone to rejoin a team within a year?

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• Shazback |  November 16th, 2008 at 7:26 pm

  
  
  

  I don’t think so, Brian. It’s very rare (since few clubs want a player they just sold back, and very few players want to re-join a club that just gave them the boot), but I doubt the league could bar Robinson from re-joining Tottenham, since it would effectively amount to the same (except registration-wise) as if Robinson had simply been loaned for half a season.

  There is a rule against a player playing for three clubs in 12 months though, as a greek side found out last season to give Pana (or AEK, or Olympiakos) the title in the courts by having a surprise win overturned.

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• Erinti |  November 16th, 2008 at 9:11 pm

  
  
  

  Olympiacos. AEK would’ve had it if poor little Apollon Kalamarias’s win had stood, and lo, there was drama.

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• matt |  November 17th, 2008 at 9:12 am

  
  
  

  I know this is no time for an Ajax supporter to talk smack about an ex-PSV man without sounding like he’s gloating, but did Tottenham really expect any different? Did they scout Gomes or just buy him after one or two stellar perfomances? Anybody who watched the eredivisie already knew his low goals-against was due to PSVs backline and certainly not his consistency and dependability.

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