While the UEFA Champions League is generally seen as the best soccer on the planet, even it is not immune to human error.
Players make blunders all the time, but when a goalkeeper does it, it usually leads to a goal (and a whole lot of scorn/mockery towards the poor bugger who messed up).
Today's UCL match between FC Twente and Tottenham Hotspur provided another example of just how crucial the keeper is, and the ramifications of one simple slip-up by the team's last line of defence.
Poor Sander Boschker - 40 years old and making his Champions League debut - will never live this one down...
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Watching the above debacle immediately brings to mind another famous miskick, by former Spurs keeper Paul Robinson while playing for England:
While we're on the topic, here's a collection of some of the best keeper cock-ups on the Internet. Ignore the crappy music and enjoy the pure buffoonery of it all: