It’s almost an article of faith in soccer that goalkeepers are crazy. MNUFC starting 'keeper Bobby Shuttleworth has had to deal with a concussion, stitches and a broken nose so far and the season isn’t quite a third over.
“I think anybody that's throwing themselves in front of feet and soccer balls has gotta have a couple screws loose,” he says. When he broke his nose after colliding with the foot of Sporting KC forward Dom Dwyer last week, he quashed any talk of coming out by instructing trainer Sean Kupiec to “jam some stuff up there and just get on with it.