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    Cracks beginning to appear in Coyle's Clarets

    By Chris Peterson

    Wednesday, October 28, 2009

    The problem with giving goalkeepers nicknames like 'The Beast' is that it sounds doubly ridiculous when the man in question is lying flat on his face with the ball in the back of the net. Certainly the image of David Seaman signing his name 'Safe Hands' does not sit well with that of him stumbling comically backwards as Ronaldinho's speculative free-kick nestled in the goal behind him during the quarter-final of the 2002 World Cup. At least Brian Jensen does not market himself on a moniker gi ...

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