00:00 a real quality footballer. I know there's some bit of clichés when you talk about Rolls-Royce
00:04 footballers. I think Michael Arteta was one of those. He sort of played it low and slow,
00:08 didn't he? But he was bloody good at it. And then obviously off the bat...
00:11 I feel you have to be larger to be a Rolls-Royce player. I feel like Rolls-Royce is reserved
00:15 for bulky players.
00:16 No, it's...
00:17 Was Arteta a bit too thin to be a Rolls-Royce? He's more sort of a Jaguar.
00:21 Maybe, maybe. As far as I'm concerned, it's about the quality of the ride, not about the
00:25 size, Matthew. So, yeah, where Michael Arteta is concerned...
00:30 I wouldn't go. I wouldn't.
00:32 Where Michael Arteta is concerned...
00:33 Hello, I'm Matty Gregory and thank you for joining us for another episode of 3 Out of
00:45 Minute's Fantasy Fibersight, a programme in which we put together the best possible
00:49 five-man football team based on some extremely specific requirements. This week we're going
00:53 to be making a Fibersight team made up of the finest lone players to grace the pitches
00:58 of the Premier League. And to help me with that, here is my 3 Out of Minute's colleague,
01:01 Jason Jones.
01:02 Yeah, so here's how it all works. Matt and I take it in turns to propose a legendary
01:06 lone e for a spot on our team, spend a bit of time arguing over who should make the cut
01:10 until one of us has persuaded the other. And as usual, we're going to have to start with
01:13 the goalkeeper. So Matt, I'll come to you first, mate. Who are you fancying? Number
01:18 one, the best lone e goalkeeper in Premier League history.
01:22 I mean, there haven't actually been a tonne of lone e goalkeepers, so this was definitely
01:25 one of the trickier positions to sort out. I'm going for a player who wasn't necessarily
01:30 at his best, shall we say, in his lone spell in the Premier League, but was still a very
01:34 memorable player who was part of something more special than his lone spell perhaps amounted
01:40 to in its own right. And that's Andy Gorham, the late great Scotland goalkeeper. Had a
01:44 wonderful career north of the border, arguably the greatest goalkeeper Scotland has ever
01:49 seen, certainly up there. Remarkable player. When he was getting a little bit long in the
01:54 tooth, I think he was 38, playing at Motherwell, you know, playing his autumn years, he suddenly
01:58 found himself called up for two games by Manchester United. They'd run out of goalkeepers,
02:03 you know, I think it was Barthez was out, his back up Ramon van der Haal was out as
02:08 well. They just desperately needed a goalkeeper. They're in the thick of a title running.
02:12 Andy Gorham, the Scottish connection with Sir Alex Ferguson was brought in and he played
02:16 two games. He conceded four goals. I don't think anyone would say that he'll be going
02:20 down with like Schmeichel and so on and De Gea in the hall of Manchester United goalkeeping fame,
02:26 but he was still a part of a successful title run. And it's one of those things where he'll
02:31 always be just a little footnote, a little mark in the appendix of Manchester United's
02:36 title win that year. But I just think it's one of those things where he's such a wonderful
02:39 goalkeeper who doesn't really get remembered perhaps as often and as well as he deserves to.
02:45 And I just like sort of, you know, I know he's not the greatest goalkeeper United ever had or
02:49 Premier League has ever seen. He was nowhere near his peak when he was playing in the Premier League.
02:54 I just thought he's someone whose name needs to be mentioned more often. And,
02:57 you know, especially since we lost him not that long ago. So that's my shout. Andy Gorham.
03:01 I think it's an interesting one, isn't it? Because obviously you're saying there's not
03:04 been a great deal of sort of lonely goalkeepers in the Premier League. I think certainly towards
03:09 the sort of top end that happened because it almost feels as if one of the prerequisites
03:13 for a successful title challenge is that you have a well-established, reliable, number one
03:18 goalkeeper, you know. So in that sense, I think Gorham is a little bit of an outlier. For me,
03:23 personally, you know, and again, we are sort of scraping the barrel a little bit on this one.
03:27 I'm going to go with Keylor Navas. Purely because, I mean, when that deal went through last season,
03:33 I don't know if you remember, but it just felt like lunacy, you know. It felt like something
03:37 of a football manager save. Suddenly you've got Keylor Navas, PSG, you know, we're talking
03:43 however many caps for Costa Rica, Real Madrid, their former Real Madrid goalkeeper, and suddenly
03:48 he's rocking up the city ground for no apparent reason whatsoever, you know. And, you know,
03:54 obviously Gorham had more success at Manchester United than Navas had at Nottingham Forest.
03:59 But I do think in terms of the level of performance, it's really hard to argue against
04:05 how integral Navas became to that Nottingham Forest team last season. You know, I think that
04:09 as far as his shot stopping ability goes, he was up there with the best in the division during his
04:13 time for Forest. And, you know, I don't have the sort of exact numbers on hand, but it'd be
04:18 interesting to see just how many of his interventions earned points for Forest and how important that
04:24 was in their bid for survival last year. You know, it's not entirely unforeseeable that they could
04:28 have come up and then gone straight back down. And I think that being able to bring in a player
04:32 like Navas, his experience, his quality, over the second half of the season, really helped to steady
04:39 the ship a little bit for Steve Cooper's men. And I just think that through a combination of that
04:43 and the fact that it was so bloody absurd, I think that I'd probably go with Keiron Navas if I had
04:51 to require. Yeah, I'm kind of fine with that because, you know, Navas at his prime was a
04:56 heck of a goalkeeper. I mean, it might not sound like much to say the greatest player that Costa
05:00 Rica has ever produced, but Paulo Wanchope exists. That's it. That was a good player for any 90s kids
05:06 out there. And yeah, just wonderful around Madrid, obviously PSG as well. And it did seem ridiculous
05:12 that he suddenly turned up and not team Forest. And I imagine it must have been a little bit of
05:15 a lift when they're buying this huge raft of players in, you know, most of whom I doubt any
05:19 of the other team, the teammates ever heard of. Suddenly there's Keiron Navas. So just to give
05:24 a lift to our Fiberside team in a similar manner, I think I'm pretty happy to put Keiron Navas in
05:28 number one jersey.
