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bruce grobbelaar

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After Panaroma investigation into the Fake Sheikh, is it time we give him the benefit of doubt and respect him as an Anfield Great?
 
Brucie was never convicted of throwing matches so I have always given him the benefit of the doubt.

Nobody ever explained the peculiar video that showed him chucking a bag of money around though!
 
I've suspected it since that video. That said, which examples have we got where you could think "he did us there"?
 
There was one occasion at Anfield against Manchester United, when Irwin took a free kick which sailed into the net with Brucie rooted to the spot. That was the only incident which could have been suspicious.
 
I thought there was an explanation that he never saw the ball? Did look strange though - fair enough.
 
1984 Charity Shield.

Maybe.

I guess I never really thought that was as bizarre as many others seemed to think it was. Maybe I just fell for his efforts to disguise it. Anyway, if he cost us a Charity Shield (even against Everton) and nothing much else then I'm prepared to forgive him.

Like I said, I suspect there was more I just haven't seen many examples that make sense to me.
 
Strangely I email with him occasionally. May be doing an event with him in a few weeks. Did a function a few years back. He loves Kenny. I'd never ask him,but it's all in the past. I'll ask him about Mignolet though!
 
Strangely I email with him occasionally. May be doing an event with him in a few weeks. Did a function a few years back. He loves Kenny. I'd never ask him,but it's all in the past. I'll ask him about Mignolet though!
Do you give him bags of cash?
 
Niall, tell him the greatest save I ever saw him make was when he kept out a near-o.g.from Jocky in one of the Merseyside Cup Finals.
 
Newcastle away when Andy (sorry, ANDREW) Cole scored three. Just plain odd. The Irwin free kick was juts a belting free kick. See keepers do that all the time.
 
I've never been convinced. He's always been a Walter Mitty figure, and I think he talked himself into that mess. The only keeper I've seen who really looked dodgy in that sense was Hans Segers.
 
The 2 ex-LFC legends I have always hated have been Grobelaar because I do believe the allegations and McMoneyman because he fucked us over the way he left for Madrid.
 
Ok - I have literally never heard a reference to Grobbelaar and match fixing! Can anyone suggest a good concise article about it?
 
He couldn't be blamed for the Charity Shield own goal. The Newcastle game with the Cole hat trick was far more suspicious.
 
You'll have to refresh my memory on that one Macca.


1994. Segers was in goal for Wimbledon for the final game of the season against Everton. Everton had to win to stay up. Wimbledon were coasting at 2-0. Segers then let in three goals, the third one coming to him so slowly he almost had to pull his hand away to ensure it went past. With John Fashanu the big man at the club, I think he was at the heart of the ruse, because the whole team seemed to throw that game away.
 
Newcastle away when Andy (sorry, ANDREW) Cole scored three. Just plain odd. The Irwin free kick was juts a belting free kick. See keepers do that all the time.
I remember that toon game. There is no fucking way he let those three goals in.
 
I always wanted to believe Grobbelaar, but as already mentioned, that video of him with wads of money doesn't help matters, and he was always doing really stupid things so it makes you wonder.

At the time it was pretty infuriating but you accepted it because he could be a character and a bit of a clown one minute then absolutely brilliant the next minute. It's slightly less easy to forgive when you think he may have been doing it all on purpose, and was actually a complete crook one minute then absolutely brilliant the next.
 
He couldn't be blamed for the Charity Shield own goal. The Newcastle game with the Cole hat trick was far more suspicious.

Yes. That was one of the games that the allegations were based upon. I remember when the story broke, Sky Sports News seemed to think it was worthwhile to get Gordon Banks to sit and watch those goals and say 'no, no. That wasn't deliberate' to every one of them.

Even by Sky standards it was a pretty bizarre way of investigating.
 
He was always a strange mixture of fantasist and braggart. Hansen has said they'd all take turns to provoke him into saying something even more outrageous and he always took the bait, oblivious of how much a figure of fun he was. His stories of his time in the army made The Walking Dead seem a bit peaceful. He was going to open a big night club once, then it ended up as a chip shop, that wasn't owned by him at all, then it went bust. Every week seemed to bring another bizarre boast. If ever someone was going to get drawn into something shady, and then talk himself deeper and deeper into the shit, it was always going to be him.
 
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