Today, the London Stadium of Hart’s destination of choice. We’d better get used to this.
The media is a fickle mistress. Just a few short months ago, Joe Hart was the worst thing ever to happen to English football, a major factor behind yet another international embarrassment and pilloried to such an extent following errors against Wales and Iceland that you wondered whether his reputation would ever recover.
These days, he’s one of the world’s top shot-stoppers once more, cruelly and callously discarded by that continental tipper-tapper Pep Guardiola for two-time La Liga champion Claudio Bravo. Doesn’t Pep know anything about the Premier League, aka the greatest competition on earth?
Inevitably, after a weekend filled with goals and concurrent goalkeeping howlers, the Hart to the Premier League rumour mill is threatening to spin off its axis. What were Liverpool thinking signing a goalkeeper voted the second best in the Bundesliga, behind only Manuel Neuer, by his peers and colleagues last season?
And, according to The Sun, West Ham United boss Slaven Bilic is determined to offer England’s finest an escape route from the hellhole that is Turin in January after Darren Randolph’s blunder gifted Liverpool an equaliser at Anfield on Sunday. Just forget his wondersave later in the match to deny Jordan Henderson, quite conceivably the greatest stop of the last few years.
But have West Ham fans bought into the Hart hype?
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