MARK TRAVERS

‘KEEPING BELIEF IS KEY FOR KEEPERS’
By Chris Dunlavy

AARON Ramsdale took plenty of stick when he joined Arsenal for £30m in August, but Mark Travers never doubted his old pal would defy the doubters who branded the Yorkshireman a waste of money.
As teenage goalkeepers at Bournemouth, the pair were comrades and rivals who spent almost every day together.
“Aaron came in about six months after me,” explains Travers, who joined the Cherries from Shamrock Rovers as a 17-year-old in 2016.
“We got on great, really pushed each other. There was a group of us who trained together every day and...

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