#3 Roy Carroll
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It really does boggle the mind when you realise that Roy Carroll was a starting goalkeeper for Manchester United and Northern Ireland. What is more shocking is that he is a Premier League winner and an FA Cup winner!
Carroll was the first choice for Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United and somehow managed to dethrone World Cup winner Fabian Barthez in between the sticks.
Carroll will go down in Premier League history for being the goalkeeper who let in that Pedro Mendes “goal” that wasn’t given. The Tottenham midfielder took aim from the halfway line and Carroll dropped what seemed an easy catch over the line, only for the linesman to controversially rule out the goal.
Not only that, when Carroll was once playing for Notts County, he somehow managed to kick the ball off the defender’s back, and just watched it trickle into the net. Carroll was just a very bad goalkeeper that managed to make a career at one of the biggest clubs in the world with seemingly no ability whatsoever.
Over the course of his Premier League career for Manchester United, Derby and West Ham, he somehow played 94 games, yet conceded 114 goals, which is a stat that shouldn’t surprise anyone.
The 39-year-old is actually still playing in his home country for Linfield, and with retirement looming, not many people will look back fondly at the career Carroll had. Error after error, Carroll remains one of the worst goalkeepers Manchester United have had for many years.
