Jens Lehmann -- What a dick

It just has to be said. If ever a player is deserving of being reviled by all opposing teams, it's this whiny, witless, cragged 'keeper.

Saturday against Watford he gets in the face of a striker who had the audacity to make a fair, innocuous challenge for a ball that was within his verbal sphere of control. With indignance, arrogance, vitriol, and plain assholedness (TM), Lehmann is in his face, shouting, chest pumping, and claiming foul. Lame, lame, Lehmann.

Let's compare that, shall we, with David James. Now, easy not to be a fan of Calamity James, but after Paul Robnson's recent disasters in goal for Spurs, surely a fresh appointment with the England squad beckons for the hairdo-'d one. Same weekend as Lehmann's weeny histrionics James dives in at the feet of [I think it was Teddy Sheringham]. It was a 50-50 ball, both committing to the challenge. James wins, jumps up with the ball, throws it out and gets on with the game. That was it. No getting in anyone's face. No teenage gesticulations at the ref. Just a hearty challenge won, and the game moves on.

Fair play, David James. Jens Lehmann, you're a dick.