I played at a low level and my son is now a GK.
I generally find that anybody who hasn’t played in goals or at least put the time in to learn what it’s about Haven’t a clue and they have no idea how difficult it is. This stems from the old fashioned idea of stick the least natural player in goals.
Time has moved on it’s a specialist skill guys need to be as competent with their feet as their hands, positional sense, organisation, reactions, get any of it wrong even once in 90 minutes and you have a whole stadium laughing and asking why you are there and that their “ granny could’ve saved that” etc etc . And it’s not just fans, pundits and commentators still do it to this day. “ He should never be beaten on his near post”
Is a war cry we hear and it’s just utter nonsense.
You are in a 24ft long by 8ft space trying to keep a 11inch ball from going past you being fired at pace. It’s not easy.