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21st Dec 2015

Twitter mocks Joe Hart after the Man City goalkeeper is nutmegged

Tom Victor

Being nutmegged is something that will happen to every goalkeeper at some point in their career.

The only response is to brush it off, pick yourself up and shake off the criticism.

And in the case of Joe Hart, who let Olivier Giroud’s shot through his legs as Manchester City went into half-time 2-0 down to Arsenal, the criticism was plentiful and varied.

It ranged from the basic

To the manic all-caps mockery

https://twitter.com/TheKxllingJoke/status/668125129357049857

To the predictable comparisons

To the emojitastic

Hart’s legs might have been too far apart, but there are no complaints about his head and shoulders.