Many Tottenham fans flocked to a tweet from the club’s Twitter account wishing former Spurs player Brad Friedel a happy birthday as he turned 49 yesterday.
After arriving at White Hart Lane from Aston Villa on a free transfer back in 2011, Friedel went on to make 67 appearances for the Lilywhites in all competitions. He also played for a number of English clubs including the likes of Liverpool, Aston Villa and Blackburn. The veteran goalkeeper notably won the League Cup with the latter in 2002.
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The American played 450 games in the Premier League throughout his entire career, keeping 132 clean sheets, making 771 saves, saving six penalties and taking 241 high claims. He completed a staggering 1,231 throw outs before finally hanging up his gloves in 2015.
His performances between the sticks drew plenty of high praise from ex-Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp, who famously remarked “Brad, again, he’s a fantastic professional, his record of consecutive games in the Barclays Premier League has been amazing” in 2011 (via Goal).
As expected, a whole plethora of Spurs fans fawned over the “absolute legend”, with one supporter tweeting he was a “fantastic keeper” and another adding: “love this guy.”
Scroll down through the rest of the best reactions below…
Legend
— Balmon (@Balmon_10) May 18, 2020
He was the best goalie we had ever got
— Mark Calvett (@markcalvett) May 18, 2020
Fantastic keeper
— P@ Kent (@MagusPerde) May 18, 2020
Lloris could never
— george (@George_D13) May 18, 2020
Absolute legend
— – Bagged again (@TanguyNfatbelly) May 18, 2020
Brad brought some much needed stability to that position. Happy birthday, big man.
— Cad Bane (@LanreAwode) May 18, 2020
Love this guy
— scotty (@sjcotty97) May 18, 2020
Tottenham fans, do you miss Brad Friedel between the goalposts? Let us know in the comments section below!
