All posts tagged The goalkeeper has scored a goal for Carlisle United. Oh Jimmy Glass!

This time four years ago Carlisle United stood on the brink of glory. A single win from their last four games against Leeds United, Southend, Millwall or Bournemouth would have been enough for the Cumbrians to claim the final automatic promotion spot from League One and reach the heady heights of English football’s second tier for the first time in 20 years. Some fans will tell you that the intervention of a single player cost the Cumbrians that year - Middlesbrough’s Nicky Bailey, then of Southend, is held in peculiar affection at Brunton Park - his histrionics served to con referee Anthony…