Seaman sets landmark with 1,000th top-flight game

ARSENAL goalkeeper David Seaman is poised to answer the critics who insisted his top-flight career was over after the World Cup by passing a landmark of 1,000 first-team appearances this weekend.

Seaman has now taken part in 999 first-team games for club and country, and will become only the third English player after Tony Ford and Peter Shilton to reach the millennium mark at Blackburn tomorrow.

Following his high-profile mishap against Brazil in the World Cup quarter-finals, followed by further mistakes against the likes of Macedonia and Bolton, it had looked as though this season could be Seaman's last at the top level.