Never one to shy away from controversy, the departing Arsenal
goalie delivered a damning indictment of the mental fortitude and
overall caliber of his opposite numbers in England.
"Sometimes goalkeepers over here are not going to school long
enough," he told the Daily Mail.
"When you are a goalkeeper you must hold your concentration level
very high throughout 90 minutes, sometimes 120, sometimes
150.
"The best way to learn that is at school with academic focus on
tasks. When you leave school at 16 you don't have it, you lose
it.
"That's probably why the foreign goalkeepers are coming over. I
know some of them and they are bright people, like Petr Cech and
Edwin van der Sar."
Lehmann, who lost his place to Manuel Almunia at Arsenal after
starting the season with errors that cost the Gunners goals in
their first two Premier League matches, is thought likely to return
to his home country for the last chapter of his career.
