Do You Condone Sending Off Tactics ?

A question I’ve asked myself especially after the interview before the game when he was asked about scoring for England. To which he replyed I would think never, not great if he had already volunteered to take a penalty if needs be.

Mind you after his attempt I’d say never was spot on :(

A question I’ve asked myself especially after the interview before the game when he was asked about scoring for England. To which he replyed I would think never, not great if he had already volunteered to take a penalty if needs be.

Mind you after his attempt I’d say never was spot on :([/quote]

To be fair, I don’t think that being a striker necessarily makes you a better penalty taker than a left back
Leighton Baines was Latics penalty taker for a while when he was here & doesn’t he take Everton’s now. Latics 3 penalty takers are either defensive or attacking midfielders & Latics most famous penalty was taken by an ageing centre half
I’m presuming that as we read & heard the England team had been practising penalties every day in training that the 4 who stepped up on Sunday & whoever the 5th one would have been were the 5 on the pitch at that time who had the best record in training. Mind you we also heard that Joe Hart had watched all the Italian players penalties for the last few years & I think he got near 1 of them – I think I much prefer Buffon’s porn method of penalty preparation[/quote]

I think you’ll find also that when asked during a TV interview, Joe Hart said that he would be more than happy to take a penalty if it came to it – I’ve seen many a goalkeeper take one over the years.