Joe Hart got lucky as England beat Wales in stoppage to get their dreams of Euro glory back on track this week. Had Daniel Sturridge not squeezed the ball into the net in stoppage time, England's hopes of progression would have rested entirely on beating Slovakia, and Hart would have deserved to shoulder a significant amount of blame.
The Manchester City stopper, one of the most senior members of young squad, let himself and his side down badly when he allowed what was essentially a tame Gareth Bale free-kick to get past him, despite getting two hands to a ball that was no way near finding the bottom corner.
It's the only thing that was asked of Hart all game and he still made a very avoidable mistake.
'A world class goalkeeper shouldn't be beaten from there'
Hart is never world class, but a bang average one shouldn't be either.#ENG #WAL
Yet for an individual so many people are willing to label 'world class' without so much as a moment's thought, it's an all too common occurrence - one that should quickly tell you just how painfully overrated England's number one is.
Hart did not feature on the recent very short list of players that new City manager Pep Guardiola is rumoured to see as 'ideal starters' at the Etihad. It suggests that the new manager, who will have seen plenty of Hart from afar over the years, is already aware that he can have better as his no.1 stopper.
England, too, can do better than Hart. That isn't something that could be said for a long time after he took the gloves from Robert Green and David James following the 2010 World Cup, but it can be said now. In Fraser Forster, the national team has a goalkeeper who can finally better Hart for quality, while the sky is the limit for Jack Butland who was unfortunate to miss Euro 2016 through injury.
To clarify, Hart is tremendously capable for the most part. He's as good a shot stopper as anyone on his day, but there are key attributes he lacks keeping him from being in the same bracket as world elite goalkeepers like Manuel Neuer, Gianluigi Buffon, David de Gea, Petr Cech and Hugo Lloris.
Hart makes too many mistakes that can only be down to a lack of focus and the ability to keep it. It's almost as if he's become a little lazy offering such incredible promise in his early twenties.
The very top goalkeepers earn their team points by making decisive interventions even when they have been total spectators in games. By contrast, when Hart has little or nothing to do for large portions of a game it tends to bring out the worst in him.
That was certainly the case against Wales and has been at club level on too many occasions in the last few years to simply be brushed away as 'one-off'. Spectacular saves here and there do a lot of covering up of Hart's other more basic deficiencies.
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Hart is the joker in the dressing room, the one who always 'sorts of the tunes'. But is he serious enough? He's often worryingly ready to laugh and joke about mistakes when he should be furious, either with himself or others.
That was the case last month when an error by City defender Gael Clichy resulted in a corner in a game against Arsenal. Hart had a laugh about it rather than berate his full-back and the Gunners scored from the subsequent set-piece.
Sitting in a studio at the time as a pundit for Sky Sports, Thierry Henry pointed out exactly what makes Hart different from top class goalkeepers.
"I played with Jens Lehmann," the Frenchman said. "I can assure you if you did that to him he would've grabbed you by the collar and let you know what he thinks about you. And what happened after? [Arsenal] score."
To realise their lofty ambitions, Manchester City need a goalkeeper who can earn them points by being that crucial last line of defence when all else fails, not one who will potentially cost them because a lack of focus results in avoidable mistakes. The exact same can be said for England.
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