Manchester United goalkeeper Ben Foster today not only kept
a clean sheet through 120 minutes of energy-sapping football in
today's League Cup final at Wembley, but also made a vital save
from Tottenham Hotspur's Jamie O'Hara as his team collected another
glittering part of what many are hailing as a seemingly inevitable
'quintuple'.
And Foster has revealed that he received some
help from a slightly unlikely source in the lead-in to the
shoot-out, courtesy of United's goalkeeping coach, Eric
Steele.
"Just before the shoot-out I was looking at an iPod and on it
were Tottenham's penalties, including one from O'Hara," Foster told
The Daily Telegraph.
"They just told me to stand up, be strong and it will probably
go that way. It is a new innovation."
Meanwhile, Foster's manager, Alex Ferguson, hailed his
young stopper as the future of goalkeeping for not just the
men from Old Trafford but also the England national team, as
United's current first-choice, Edwin van der Sar continues his
indomitable form in the Premier League and the Champions
League.
"The future is his," the United boss said of the 25-year-old
glovesman.
"The present belongs to Van der Sar. Given that experience in a
final, that strengthens his [Foster's] belief. I think he'll be
England's goalkeeper for the next number of years"
