Leigh ROOSE | 1906-1907 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)

ROOSE PES STATS | 1906-1907

Vandeach Name: Leigh Richmond Roose Leigh ROOSE | 1906-1907 Club: Stoke City Number: - Position: *GK Nationality: Welsh Era/Age: 1906-1907, aged 29 Foot: R Side: R Length: 185cm(very big for a footballer in those days relative to players playing now he'd be about 194cm!) Weight: ALOT Attack: 50 Defence: 84 Balance: 98 Stamina: 69 Top Speed: 70 Acceleration: 72 Response: 94 Agility: 90 Dribble Accuracy: 55 Dribble Speed: 58 Short Pass Accuracy: 57 Short Pass Speed: 65 Long Pass Accuracy: 60 Long Pass Speed: 66 Shot Accuracy: 43 Shot Power: 93 Shot Technique: 44 Free Kick Accuracy: 44 Curling: 46 Header: 43 Jump: 92 Technique: 52 Aggression: 76 Mentality: 97 Keeper Skills: 86 Team Work: 90 Injury Tolerance: A Condition/Fitness: 6 Weak Foot Accuracy: 4 Weak Foot frequency: 4 Consistency: 8 SPECIAL ABILITIES: PENALTY STOPPER* 1-ON-1 STOPPER* Leigh Richmond Roose didn't have to be a goalkeeper. The boy from North Wales was a qualified doctor of bacteriology and was rich enough to once hire his own train to get him to an away game on time. Roose was a truly quite bizzare goalkeeper and probably one you will never replicate correctly in real life. Roose was the father of all crazy goalkeepers,during a game he could usually be found leaning casually against the goalpost without a care in the world, as if he was waiting for a bus.He also had a wicked sense of humour and was not adversed to playing the odd practical joke on his team-mates.More, perhaps, than any 'keeper of his time, even more than Foulke.Roose possessed the size and strength to meet the robust strikers of the period on equal terms. His considerable physical presence is said to have made Peter Schmeichel look like a wimp! And according to one biographer, the Welshman ''enjoyed taunting experienced international forwards, some of whom felt the full force of his fist in goalmouth melees.'' If contemporary accounts are reliable, Jenkins continues, the save which Roose made while representing Aberystwyth against Builth in the Leominster Cup in 1897 was at least equal to that made by Gordon Banks against Pelé in the 1970 FIFA World Cup.'Mond Roose played in a daring style, often - at a time when other goalkeepers rarely strayed more than a few yards from their goals - rushing out of his penalty area to fill the position left by an errant full back. In his first international, he sprinted from his area and shoulder-charged an opposing Irish winger on the far touchline, bundling him out of play and knocking him unconscious. He also took full advantage of the rules of the day, which allowed the goalkeeper to handle the ball anywhere in his own half. It has been said that the 1912 alteration to the laws of the game, forbidding the goalkeeper to handle outside his penalty area, was directly due to the performances of Roose, who enjoyed taking part in attacks.At his best, the Welshman was also a superb if unorthodox shot-stopper, once saving a full blooded drive from only six yards out by clamping the ball between his knees. He was extremely athletic and was reputed, by the football spectators of the day, to have the mysterious ability to change his direction while diving full length. Roose was a lso a masisvely famous saver of penalties. Roose's popularity as a goalkeeper was based only in part on his abilities; he was also one of the great crowd-pleasers of the time. Supporters recall him putting on gymnastic displays from his crossbar when play was safely at the other end of the pitch. At a time when other goalkeepers walked onto the pitch at the beginning of a game, Roose was also unusual in running on briskly, acknowledging the applause of the crowd. When a penalty was awarded, he frequently waved to spectators both before and after completing a save. STORIES OF ROOSE: On 23 April 1910, Roose, by then a very famous former Stoke player, guested - along with Herbert Chapman - for Port Vale in a match against Stoke Reserves that would decide the winner of the North Staffordshire and District League. Roose not only insisted on playing against his former club while wearing his old Stoke City shirt, but aroused the ire of the 7,000 strong crowd with his breathtaking play. He ''saved every shot with such arrogant ease that the furious crowd spilled onto the field. Roose's jersey was also a subject of mythology. He swore that he could only keep goal in one particular top made by one particular person in one particular way. Having kept goal for seventeen years for a number of clubs, including Aston Villa and Celtic, and played twenty-four times for Wales, his shirt must have been either very worn or incredibly smelly by the end of his career, especially as he insisted on wearing the same undershirt that was never washed it case brought him bad luck. COMMENTS BY ROOSE: To a goalkeeper alone, Roose concluded, ''is the true delight of goalkeeping known. He must be an instinctive lover of the game, otherwise goalkeeping will take it out of a man if he is not devoted to it.'' _________________ Modesty is just one of my many, many great attributes Leigh ROOSE | 1906-1907 | PES Stats Database (Golden Era Backup)