The Fiver | Morphing into a near-post hologram to gift a much-needed goal
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!Jordan Pickford is a complex character, a mass of contradictions who claims to have the hide of a rhinoceros but is apparently wrapped in quite thin skin. We saw the best and worst of him on Saturday, the Everton goalkeeper brilliantly saving a Christian Benteke header with his chest just a few minutes after he’d helped the hapless striker end his fabled drought by morphing into a near-post hologram to gift him a much-needed goal. The Crystal Palace striker’s subsequent effort from point-blank range wasn’t the only thing Pickford got off his chest, as he decided to unburden himself during a post-match interview in which he explained how impervious he is to criticism, while simultaneously co...