So he's been around a long time, he has been, without doubt, our most consistent goalkeeper and you know the story of football, you can make a mistake in midfield, you can make ten mistakes up front and nobody sees that.
Could it be he was over-hyped as many were caught up in the feel-good story of the revival of Notre Dame football, and he was (literally) in the center of their ascension?
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Already, it had turned the feel-good story line of the college football season into a dark and strange one.
Its rise is much more than just the story of two successful football teams.
Will the schools prescreen media interview questions to ascertain whether the subject matter goes outside the lines of football, so they can investigate the story before it goes viral?
He wrote on Twitter that Cahiers du Football "was 100% NOT the source of my story" and further disputed Cahiers du Football's claim in a webcast.
She delves into the history of the Long Beach shipyards and the story behind the Cleveland Browns football team.
Just when it seems as if everything in football is about the business of football, a story like this comes along.
The advert is a takeoff on the children's story Goldilocks and the Three Bears in which Cattrall infiltrates the locker room of a football team and tries three colas they have left behind.
And at the centre of the scandalous story are the splendid stadia that were built around the country for the football tournament.
The story of how Wenger remade Arsenal into a team admired for passing football played with speed and precision has been recounted many times.
This is the story of how I dared to dream, not only of surviving professional football, but of living openly for who I am, a gay man.
The football museum used the 1891 census to piece together the story of Mr Donohoe's links with Brazil.
Doubts over the Times' report had emerged last week when a French soccer website called Cahiers du Football pointed out that many of the details matched a spoof story it had posted more than a day earlier.
"With regard to the story published in today's edition of The Times newspaper concerning a 'Dreams Football League, ' the Qatar Football Association and other Qatari football entities can categorically confirm that we have no involvement in any such initiative and has heard nothing to suggest such a concept is genuine, " the statement read.
"Football, particularly, is a fascinating story at the moment, " says Jeremy Hillman, editor of the Economics and Business Centre in BBC News.
It seemed that the story was not an exclusive, it had run on a French soccer website called Les Cahiers du Football a couple of days before the Times went into overdrive.
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