Andy Forshaw: England's oldest national league starter?

With St. Alban's having made their way back to the East conference division of the men's English national league, it would seem that the Hertfordshire would be needing a wise head and shoulders (although not like the Hart/Casillas advertisement videos!) 'between the posts' as they looked to grind out games. Although they look to be going straight back down after a great division winning season that took them back up, with Brighton slowly creeping up the table ahead of them, St. Alban's seem to have just that, with the oldest active goalkeeper in the league right now. Numeric wise Andy Forshaw stands at a grand of 46 (not to be mistaken for being ageist I must add!), the great aid of experience can help prolong a goalkeeper's playing career even after the reflexes start to go, after all, Shilton had something like a 31 year pro playing career.

Andy in action

And it seems he has been in fine form, even if the players in front of him haven't had much luck. And without him St. Alban's would arguably be far worse of, with his level of save making drawing commendation from opposing teams:

match report

Doing a bit of research, it would appear Forshaw cut his teeth on national league experience with Formby many years ago; my hockey knowledge being a bit more than obsolete beyond beyond about five years ago (not coming from a hockey family, guess that excuse doesn't help too much though!), although I'm not sure when he decided to hop down south to get his chance down south.

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