Goalkeeper Joe Hart misses World Cup 2018: Who to blame now?

Not many people were surprised by coach Gareth Southgate's decision because recently, the goalkeeper born in 1987 has not been able to maintain stable performance. His extremely disappointing performances for West Ham this season have made Joe Hart unable to compete with Jordan Pickford (Everton), Butland (Stoke City) and even Nick Pope (Burnley).

With the above information, fans of goalkeeper Joe Hart will be disappointed and blame Man City coach Pep Guardiola. At Euro 2012, World Cup 2014 and Euro 2016, the person who always stood in the goal of the England team was Joe Hart.

Meanwhile, at Man City, the 30-year-old goalkeeper is also the number 1 choice of both coach Roberto Mancini and coach Manuel Pellegrini. The FA Cup championship in 2011 and the Premier League title in the 2011/12 and 2013/2014 seasons were largely due to goalkeeper Joe Hart.

Joe Hart was pushed out of Etihad due to conflict with coach Pep Guardiola. Photo: Internet

While he was a "hero" at Etihad Stadium and a mainstay of the England national team, everything suddenly changed dramatically with Joe Hart's career. The appearance of coach Pep Guardiola at Man City (summer 2016) was the turning point that marked the English goalkeeper's rapid decline.

The conflict between Joe Hart and coach Pep Guardiola forced him to wander all the way to Italy to play for Torino Club on loan (2016/2017 season).

Despite rookie Claudio Bravo's disappointing performance and Joe Hart's excellent performance at Torino, the Spanish strategist still did not care and did not give him a chance.

When goalkeeper Ederson arrived at Etihad in the summer transfer window of 2017, everyone understood that the chance to return to Man City was gone for the goalkeeper born in 1987. Fortunately, West Ham Club reached out to save Joe Hart with a 1-year loan contract from Man City.

Goalkeeper Joe Hart often makes mistakes this season. Photo: Internet

It seemed that returning to England to play football would help the 30-year-old goalkeeper continue to assert his talent, but everything happened the opposite way. A series of mistakes at West Ham, typically the one that led to Peter Crouch's equalizer in the 1-1 draw in the West Ham - Stoke City match on April 17, caused Joe Hart to lose the trust of England coach Gareth Southgate. From number 1 goalkeeper, Joe Hart dropped to number 2, then number 3 and now he has been eliminated from the list of the "Three Lions" attending the 2018 World Cup.

The consequences that Joe Hart has to face today, in the end, are due to the goalkeeper himself. However, if coach Pep Guardiola had not been so "heartless" towards Joe Hart, if the English goalkeeper had not suffered such a miserable decline in form, Joe Hart would not have been absent from the flight to Russia this coming June with coach Gareth Southgate and his team.

“Blame yourself first, then blame others”, instead of blaming coach Pep Guardiola, Joe Hart should blame himself first./.