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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
I've said it before and I'll say it again. As far as I'm concerned there are no 'villains' in Penalty Shoot-outs. If you've got the grapefruits to step up and take a kick you're a hero to begin with.
Heroes are made in shoot-outs, not villains.Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
That is so not true. Politically correct wank.
The manager decides who steps up to the spot (presumably based on training form), he doesn't ask for volunteers. All the cards are in the kicktakers favour, they should score and if they can handle pressure they will score.
The villians are the ones who can't handle the pressure and perform a skill they can do with their eyes closed at training.
Goalkeepers are the ones with nothing to lose.Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
Give me a break SS.
Does Brendan Fevola kick every goal at training? Does Tiger Woods nail every practice putt he makes? Did Andrew Gaze make every free-throw at training?
To say "At training he steps up to the spot and nails every one" is downright foolery.Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
Not always. Most of the time it is up to the players to decide.
My respect for Chimbo went through the roof the other day when I found out that he has never taken a penalty before, misses in training and yet still had the gumption to take the last penalty kick for Spurs ahead of Lennon and more shockingly Malbranque who used to be the regular penalty taker for Fulham.
In a sense that has made Mabs a villian in my book.
What do people think of Baggio? Was he a hero or villian in Italy after that kick?Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
When you're an Italian footballer, it takes very little to become a villian in the eyes of a public.
In Baggio's case, not only did he miss that penalty, he had a very indifferent world cup. He wasn't all that fit, he was out of form, a couple of weeks he'd probably rather forget.
To compound all of that, he had done something that was simply not accepted by the Catholic heartland that is Italy. He had embraced Buddhism. The public decided that turning his back on God had been the cause of this downfall.
That's Italian football for you.Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
Baggio was not the villian in Italy.
He basically single handedly put them in the final. He torn his hammy in the semi and should never have played a game 3 or 4 days later. Indifferent tournament, I don't know. Had they have won he would have been the player of the tournment.
The Italian soccer fans don't give a stuff about whether he is Catholic or Bhuddist,. Football itself is a religion there.
The coach seems to be the villian more in Italy
If Baggio is a villain its in Florence, where he left Fiorentina for more money at Juventus.Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
Really?
In one of the most important games they've ever played in?
With the entire world watching their every move on Television?
With anything up to 50,000 people in the crowd doing anything humanly possible to distract them?
With a highly skilled man standing that 9 metres away, who is allowed to stop the ball?
Imagine how Tiger would go if someone was allowed to throw something at his ball to keep it out of the cup.
Rubbish comparison.Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
That's my point. It's all about handling the pressure.
Tiger would make 100/100 at practice from 3 feet. Stand over a 3 footer on the 18th on a Sunday and all of a sudden that putt looks a whole lot longer than a 3 footer - and Tiger would nail it because he could handle the pressure. Not every player could.Comment
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Re: Penalty Shoot Outs
But for a golfer, they're playing another tournament in a couple of weeks, they get another shot soon enough.
For a Footballer, that's it for the year/tournament/career/life in some circumstances.
And the golfer gets his putt in complete silence. I'm sure the footballer would love that luxury.
And as for Tiger Woods, you're using possibly the greatest sportsman in the world at the moment as your comparison. A tad unfair perhaps?Comment
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