Blatter wants to scrap penalty shootouts


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Personally I think Blatter doesn't give a monkeys about penalties.

He just wants to change something that people will talk about instead of remembering him as an odious bell-end
 
HoffTTM said:
There is nothing "tragic" about a match going to penalties nor is it "a lottery". A penalty shootout is a test of skill under immense pressure and sometimes players buckle. They are perfectly fine as they are. A top level professional footballer should be able to sidefoot a ball into a space a yard wide from 12 yards at reasonable pace which is all it takes.

Blatter is a wanker

And there we have the winner.
 
go back to a simple coin toss like when Italy got to the final back in the sixties!

not wrong with penalties. its part of a match. it involves skill, luck, mistakes etc just like the game does.
 
A faux German and a real one get upset at a German team losing on penalties after winning shoot outs for years!

You really have to admire their cheek. No time for these shoot outs mesell like, but just to keep the huns happy we should maybe decide these games on the amount of fair haired players in the squad.
 
Blatter can fuck right off.
Football is all about scoring goals. Penalty shootouts are all about scoring goals. Those with the most accurate shots win. Its the entire philosophy of the game simplified into ten kicks of the ball.
That Golden Goal nonsense was a debacle a few years ago and is a terrible idea.
Keep the shootouts. End of.
 
It takes more skill though- a centre back can just blast a penalty but it is a lot harder when they have to get round the keeper, chip him or put it past him and he's coming out and narrowing the angle. Like I say, it means the skill of the keeper becomes more of a factor and its a better test of the composure and technical ability of the attacking player.

this!

it's the next best thing to 'simulating' a goalscoring situation that does happen within the game

just do 5 one on ones or maybe 2 onto 1 defender/keeper and give them 30 seconds or summit
 
Bring on a load of girls in really short skirts and vote who is the best-looking?
See who can put up the most money in brown envelopes?
Allow Platini to choose which team is the least English?

One of those should appeal to Sepp...
 
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