RALPH Hasenhuttl admits he hasn’t heard of Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster’s YouTube channel but calls on James Ward-Prowse to hit another free-kick into his net – “no matter how many cameras are posted there!” The veteran 38-year-old shot-stopper became an internet sensation last season when he began taking a small camera and putting it in his goal to capture what professional games look like from inside the net. He recorded everything from training sessions, scenes inside the dressing room and his matchday saves and blunders – all edited and uploaded to his channel in a video-log stye edit that all the kids are watching
Ralph Hasenhuttl said: “I haven’t seen it, no, I don’t know what it is. It’s an interesting idea he wants to see himself standing in the goal! It’s okay. What I know is that Prowsey had some good free-kicks against him in the last games that they played.”
Saints skipper Ward-Prowse hit a brilliant free-kick the last time the two teams met in the Premier League, back in June of the postponed and extended 2019-20 campaign. It ended a run of 21 games without a strike, with his last coming in the reverse Watford fixture in November 2019.
Ralph Hasenhuttl added: “So it’s good that he is back in this game, back on the pitch because I think that he is obviously a threat from the set-pieces and free-kicks around the box. We have to find the back of the net, no matter how many cameras are posted there, this is not interesting to us.”
Foster had to strike an agreement with the Championship to allow him to upload the match footage, which would normally be reserved for paying rights-holders, by donating proceeds of the channel to charity Mind.
