With most of the Barclays Premier League's top prizes all-but decided, the goalkeepers of the English top flight are still in a battle to win the award for most league clean sheets: the Golden Glove.
With two games to go - or three for Sunderland and Arsenal - a handful of keepers can still lay claim to being the division's best, and the frontrunners may surprise some.
Manchester City's Joe Hart, Liverpool stopper Simon Mignolet, Swansea City keeper Lukasz Fabianski and Fraser Forster of Southampton sit top of the table as it stands, with 13 shut-outs each.
Manchester United's David de Gea, recognised as the Premier League's top stopper in the PFA Team of the Year, is three clean sheets off the pace and can no longer come out on top.
Aside from the current leaders, the only other realistic contender is Chelsea's Thibaut Courtois who is likely to be rested in favour of giving a big send-off to outgoing hero Petr Cech at Stamford Bridge as the season comes to an end.
Ben Foster on 11 has no chance after being ruled out for the rest of the season with a knee injury.
So that leaves the leading four. Forster, too, is out for the rest of the campaign but he could still share the prize if none of his rivals can keep their final opponents out.
In the past the award was decided on a clean sheets-to-games ratio in the event of a tie but the rules changed last season to allow it to be shared.
Source:Dailymail.
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