18-12-2014, 23:38
The thing which amused me was how much better the penalties got as the shootout wore on, as if the practise was doing them good! Can only be a matter of time before we get a shootout so long that the players end up becoming unstoppable penalty machines, and it thus continues for all eternity.
"And stepping up now, as this penalty shootout enters its fortieth year, is the centre-forward's fifteen-year-old son who's spent his entire life inside this stadium watching his father. He may not be capable of intelligible speech or using a toilet, but he has learnt exactly how to hit the top corner at 100mph from twelve yards out."
"And stepping up now, as this penalty shootout enters its fortieth year, is the centre-forward's fifteen-year-old son who's spent his entire life inside this stadium watching his father. He may not be capable of intelligible speech or using a toilet, but he has learnt exactly how to hit the top corner at 100mph from twelve yards out."
"I would rather spend a holiday in Tuscany than in the Black Country, but if I were compelled to choose between living in West Bromwich or Florence, I should make straight for West Bromwich." - J.B. Priestley