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I was doing the school run when I found out England had drawn USA in their group at the World Cup. I had just enough time to send one tweet, with one emoji, a pair of eyes. As if to say: ‘well this is awkward.’
I think enough time has passed for my mistake in 2010 to be looked on in good humour. It doesn’t define me as a person and it doesn’t define my career.
It would have been nice to say it was the only mistake I ever made – but it wasn’t!
Rob Green fumbled the ball during England's 2-2 draw to USA at the 2010 World Cup
Green said his friends and family had been 'harrassed' following his mistake at the tournament
You know immediately what’s gone wrong when it happens. The ball hits your hand in slightly the wrong place, just an inch away from where it should have done. That’s the difference.
You get that gut-wrenching feeling but you have to get through the next five minutes. The only thing worse than making a big mistake is making two. You have a process to mentally switch back on and reset, a bit like batsmen do if they play a bad shot in cricket.
It’s not until you’re walking in at the end of the game that you realise the magnitude of it. Only then do you realise it was a big error and the whole world is watching.
I was disappointed but you know as a goalkeeper that these things happen once in a while. You make mistakes in your career. You just try to keep them as far apart as possible.
Green also admitted that the media had 'over-sensationalised' the error which wasn't that big
Green was disappointed Fabio Capello (pictured) criticised him after the fumble happened
Fabio Capello pulled me to one side the night before the next game and said it was too big a mistake. I said I’m ready to play and he replied “well, you’re not.” That was a huge disappointment. You make a rare mistake like that once every six months, if that.
The mistake itself wasn’t as big a deal for me as it was for everyone else. How it was over-sensationalised in the media.
I was disappointed in how my friends and family were treated. It was one of the few games my parents missed, they were flying out to the World Cup later. They went out for a walk one day and got a message saying: ‘Don't come home, you can't get in, your house is surrounded”. I had friends who were harassed at work. These were just people going about
