If you want to win an Oscar, you might consider taking a page from the Mary Pickford playbook and inviting the entire Academy over for tea and heavy-handed career lobbying.

Jordan Pickford’s reaction to a standard corner kick feels less like a professional match and more like a high-stakes performance art piece staged in a penalty box.

There is a special kind of confidence required to be a goalkeeper who treats every saveable shot like a personal affront to the laws of physics.