World Cup 2014: Robert Green sees light in the 'dark side' And there are many, many opinions. "If you are English you get scrutinised a lot more," Green says. "If a foreign goalkeeper in this country makes a mistake it's, "He could have done better there." If it's an English goalkeeper it's scrutinised over and over again. It does not help that English goalkeepers appear to have been devalued. "If you go to Spain and ask, "Who has the best goalkeepers?" they will say, "The Spanish." If you go to Germany, they will say German goalkeepers, and Italy the same. You go to England and they say, "God knows!" It's the only country with a leading league who don't think that their goalkeepers are the best. It's just been an accepted movement that everyone goes for a foreign goalkeeper. It's difficult and the value of English goalkeepers has diminished along with, say, English managers. There is also, he believes, a lack of understanding and informed analysis. "When the assessment of goalkeepers is made by people who have never actually stood there in a game and experienced it then it's hard to take it without a large pinch of salt," Green claims. Unfortunately because the goalkeeper is the least glamorous position then no one, apart from David James, does the punditry through a goalkeeper's eyes. And because there are only two goalkeepers on the pitch you are only talking about one 11th of the game. You get people's opinions coming across when actually it's so foreign to what they are expert in. It's like me assessing a chef or a chess player. Perhaps in an effort to set that right, Green found himself behind the mic on Friday at Wembley, providing analysis of England's friendly against Chile for radio, although he has not given up hope of representing his country again. "I have goals," Green says. The goal when I was 10 years old was to play for my country and it's still my goal. If I've got as many years left as I hope then if you go out of fashion you can come back in at some point. Like flared trousers, I guess. It is a far cry from last season when Green had to assess how much longer he had in the game. Signed by QPR in the Premier League as their new No 1 - he was then abruptly usurped as the transfer window closed by Jûlio César, Brazil's first choice who arrived from Inter Milan. "It was by far the toughest season I have had," he says. For over a decade I had played every week so to then have a season when you are not - that physical and mental high when you build up to a game, and come down afterwards - was missing. It takes a while to adjust and is quite confusing. "More than anything I was thinking, "I'm 33 now, how much longer do I want to play for?" You look at the other guys who are playing: Brad Friedel, who is 42, which is incredible; Van der Sar was at Manchester United and they wanted to keep him on at 40; David James played at the World Cup at 40, Mark Schwarzer too. You think, "What do I have to do?" What's clear from these guys is that physically they are machines. That was something I wanted to do - I got in the gym and took it up another level. Green also worked on what he calls "trigger work." "You try and explain it to young players and they look at you with open mouths," he says, citing two basic examples: "set narrow" and "breathe." They are words that Green, restored as QPR's first choice, says to himself during games. "What I was doing last season was to take that step back and go to the trigger work that you use - words in your head to make sure that technically you are right," he explains. You work on a position when someone is about to shoot and your legs can be too wide apart. It means you are unable to move left or right at the speed that you want. So the trigger words are "set narrow." Or it might be after you have caught the ball you want to make sure you have caught it. You watch photos of goalkeepers and their hands can be in the air and they are looking straight ahead. Well, they are not even looking to see if they have caught the ball. So trigger words might be "keep looking at it, you've caught it and breathe." How long does it take to breathe? A second. It's basic - you are just saying, "when you have caught it, make sure you have caught it."" And, with that, ruin a few more afternoons for his critics in the stands.