If you look at the list of Premier League
winners and the players who have collected
winner's medals over the years, one of the
stand out things you would notice is the quality of goalkeepers who have been at the heart of teams to claim the
ultimate prize in English football.
In portraying the difficulty with which Sam
stands astride two worlds, increasingly at odds, the movie doesn't implicitly choose a side, and the audience is the
ultimate winner in the adaptation of this unlikely true story, which richly captures all the befuddlement of youth, albeit in some circumstances of extreme duress.