Remember when penalties used to purely be about the taker trying to score past the goalkeeper?

Sure. The premise remains the same, but over the years odds have gradually been strengthened in that taker's favour. And just when you thought restrictions upon goalkeepers in such a scenario couldn't be restricted any further, IFAB have decided to dig just that little bit deeper in the past week.

As of July 1 of this year, goalkeepers are no longer allowed to "taunt" takers during penalties. Free shots from 12 yards, remember. But, no, seemingly that is not enough of an advantage.

Naturally, that is where we begin what is a quick Between the Sticks. With Rich hopping on a plane for some global goalkeeping business, we recorded this one swiftly after the Super Sunday games had finished.

That's it. We've eked out every last drop of our chat with Rob Green, so here's the third and final instalment in the trilogy of chats.

Aside from discussing his final ever season with Chelsea, Rob goes into detail about that moment against USA at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. He doesn't pull any punches and lifts the lid on what life was like under Fabio Capello, how he dealt with the critics and how he bounced back.

Hopefully you've enjoyed this mini-series. More chats have been lined up for the coming weeks, so feature interviews shall return in due course.

As you have no doubt already seen, ex-Premier League and England goalkeeper Ben Foster has come out of retirement to join Wrexham AFC.

So much to be said on this one, especially considering Rich played a huge part in orchestrating the move.

Here's a quick 15 minutes explaining how the deal was conceived, negotiations with Wrexham and why it's a decent match-up for both parties.

You can't be a bit of FA Cup action, which is why the Quarter Finals kick off this week's show.

We start at Old Trafford with a great save from, er, Willian, and discuss questionable ITV Sport punditry regarding the performances of David de Gea and Sheffield United's Wesley Foderingham.

In the Premier League, Illan Meslier continues to add to his growing roster of youthful landmarks, David Raya has been labelled a No10 by Brentford's media team and divisional debuts were welcomed in the form of Dan Iversen and Joe Whitworth.

Elsewhere, Angus Gunn - called up to the Scotland squad following his switch of international allegiance - takes centre stage with impressive Championship stats at Norwich, Christian Walton kept a seventh successive shutout and Jamie Cumming throws his gloves in the ring for this matchday's Save of the Weekend contender.

Finally, an honourable mention goes to ex-England No1, Carly Telford, who called time on a 20-year playing career last week. Onto the next step.

It's been a while since we've conducted a proper feature interview, so we're delighted to post this latest podcast with ex-Manchester City and Chelsea stopper, Willy Caballero.

Now at Southampton, Willy charts his rise from humble beginnings in Argentina to saving penalties in EFL Cup Final shootouts at Wembley.

We talk Joe Hart and Edwin van der Sar, a tricky transition from La Liga to the Premier League and, of course, that moment with Kepa in 2019.

It appears there may have been something in the goalkeeping water this weekend.

From Nick Pope not giving away a penalty to forward roll fights and Harry Lewis nonchalantly catching a ball over the top a good ten yards outside of his area, the global glovesmen game veered a little left field.

And that's what we love, of course. Because it gives us plenty to talk about, in addition to the customary analysis of super saves from the likes of Emi Martinez, Fraser Forster and Gavin Bazunu - the latter keeping a clean sheet at Old Trafford in what could be a vital point for Southampton come May.

Elsewhere, Jak Alnwick made it successive Saturdays for Cardiff 'keepers to see red, while Christian Walton broke a club record at Ipswich by going six games without conceding.

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Following another week's hiatus (apologies, unforeseen circumstances meant recording had to take a back seat last week) we've hopefully made up for it with a comprehensive analysis of the weekend just gone – plus a few snippets from the previous week missed.

That means a look at Loris Karius' comeback performance in the Carabao Cup Final, a clean sheet record broken by David de Gea and a landmark reached by Ederson.

Robert Sanchez comes into focus after being dropped for the first time since claiming the gloves from Maty Ryan back in December 2020, Karl Darlow bags his break at Hull and Paul Farman continues to rack up MOM awards with Barrow.

Text Talk also returns in the form of Bristol Rovers stopper James Belshaw, and Rich has a tale to tell about rubbing shoulders with Carlo Cudicini, Mikael Silvestre and Tony Bellew.

Unforeseen scheduling changes meant we weren't able to record this week, so to fill the void we're dipping back into the vault for another dose of Rob Green... Two years after the first.

The first-half focused on, well, the first half of his career. This second-half hones in on what came next and a complete debacle of a situation at QPR. Then, as extra-time rolls in at some point over the next few weeks, we concentrate heavily on England and that solitary outing in South Africa.

Great storyteller, Greeny. Hope you enjoy. And thank you, as always, for listening.

Good to be back! Between the Sticks returns with a comprehensive roundup of the weekend's action, where David de Gea equalled a long-standing record, Nick Pope ruled himself out of a first club trip to Wembley and Emi Martinez went against the wishes of his manager - much to the public dismay of said manager.

In the EFL, the Goalkeeper Assist klaxon is sounded for Nicholas Bilokapic of Huddersfield, while Hokey Cokey 'Keepers goes into overdrive from the Championship to League Two.

A word is given on Manuel Neuer's comments following the departure of Bayern goalkeeper coach, Toni Tapalovic, 'Keeper Capers goes north of the border with Dundee United's Mark Birighitti, and a quick tribute is paid to stoppers who have sadly passed away since we were last on air.

Two huge Premier League derbies this week. Two huge goalkeeping talking points.

Should Bruno Fernandes' goal have stood as Manchester United equalised and then defeated Man City? And was Hugo Lloris at fault for the opener in Spurs' North London loss at home to Arsenal?

Both questions are rather vociferously answered by Mr Lee in this podcast, in addition to analysis of performances from Kepa Arrizabalaga, Emi Martinez and Jordan Pickford.

Clean Sheet Club returns – complete with a new-look leaderboard – for the first time since the beginning of November, and GKs On Their Way springs into action as the goalkeeping merry-go-round starts to take shape.

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