The Football.....

[Pblakeney]

Well you live and learn. Apparently a "Panenka" is style of penalty kick. Ouattara took a very stupid penalty for Brentford last night. He dinked the ball straight into the keeper's hands. This is what the Brentford manager had to say about it:

"No, I'm not annoyed at all. When you miss a penalty it is a tough moment, but it is easier to not take a penalty than take a penalty.

"It takes serious courage to do that. He practises that technique a lot, if it goes in everyone's raving about him."

Well, there's truth in those words but a little dink down the middle? I doubt many Bees fans are quite as understanding as their manager. Daft. If in doubt, smack hard down the middle. That'll go in 9/10. Dinks? Shuffles? Stop/start? Nothing but showboating.

Named after the first player to do it successfully in a major tournament.
Loads of examples of players succeeding, and failing, on YT.

 

[AndyRM]

My favourite would be Pirlo ruining Joe Hart.


View: https://youtu.be/gXFWmpB-cPQ?si=D1Acpx88Fsnu0aUU

 

[laurentian]

Following just one win in sixteen matches, Northampton Town sack manager Kevin Nolan. Second from bottom of League 1 and all teams around us have games in hand . . . I fear we're going down . . .

 

[laurentian]

This is interesting Premier League vs UEFA:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8r1m4mr2k8o

 

[Pblakeney]

This is interesting Premier League vs UEFA:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8r1m4mr2k8o

Is that just a fudge to allow Man City's spending?
Any other team would have had a serious amount of points deducted already.

 

[Beebo]

Spurs have reached a new low.
Subbing the goalie off after 15 minutes is unforgivable, especially when the manager picked him in the first place.
They deserve to go down now.

 

[Dave7]

Spurs have reached a new low.
Subbing the goalie off after 15 minutes is unforgivable, especially when the manager picked him in the first place.
They deserve to go down now.

To be fair, it would have been cruel to leave that goalie on. I wouldn't be surprised if his career is completely derailed by that debacle. As a neutral (apart from being english) it was painful to watch.

 

[PaulSB]

Currently Spurs look as though they will implode and possibly go down. I'm going to avoid all the jibes, banter etc though I've read some good stuff. I can't help but feel there position demonstrates the mess that PL football has become. Spurs being relegated will be a disaster...........for the Championship. I hope they stay up as Spurs playing in the Championship next season means there will almost certainly only be one other promotion spot to play for.

I do not want to see Tottenham in the Championship. Please stay up!

 

[AndyRM]

Hooking the lad after 15 minutes is going to ruin him confidence wise, which is what the position is all about. Keepers are under ridiculous levels of scrutiny and often singled out for unfair criticism.

 

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Currently Spurs look as though they will implode and possibly go down. I'm going to avoid all the jibes, banter etc though I've read some good stuff. I can't help but feel there position demonstrates the mess that PL football has become. Spurs being relegated will be a disaster...........for the Championship. I hope they stay up as Spurs playing in the Championship next season means there will almost certainly only be one other promotion spot to play for.

I do not want to see Tottenham in the Championship. Please stay up!

I bet you are not saying that about Burnley?
From a West Ham and Arsenal supporter prospective we would love Tottenham to go down but i don't see it happening.Firstly because they have been so bad they must turn the corner sometime and secondly i can see them sacking Tudor and getting the new manager bounce.
I hate to say it but it still could be us playing you next season.

 

[Seevio]

On the plus side, Rovers won and City lost so it was a fine evening in South Glos.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Well you live and learn. Apparently a "Panenka" is style of penalty kick. Ouattara took a very stupid penalty for Brentford last night. He dinked the ball straight into the keeper's hands. This is what the Brentford manager had to say about it:

"No, I'm not annoyed at all. When you miss a penalty it is a tough moment, but it is easier to not take a penalty than take a penalty.

"It takes serious courage to do that. He practises that technique a lot, if it goes in everyone's raving about him."

Well, there's truth in those words but a little dink down the middle? I doubt many Bees fans are quite as understanding as their manager. Daft. If in doubt, smack hard down the middle. That'll go in 9/10. Dinks? Shuffles? Stop/start? Nothing but showboating.

Panenkas work quite often, I don't think they're inherently riskier than any other penalty type. They just look awful if the keeper doesn't move. You need the technique and mental acuity to wait for the keeper to move, and to have a backup plan if he doesn't

Hooking the lad after 15 minutes is going to ruin him confidence wise, which is what the position is all about. Keepers are under ridiculous levels of scrutiny and often singled out for unfair criticism.

I think he had to go. On the third goal he was lying on the pitch with his face in his gloves before the ball was even in the net. Nothing he could have done about by then, but stopping playing before the goal is scored is a bad look and doesn't speak well of his mental state at that point. In the very slight chance that the striker decided to welly it into the net for fun and hit the woodwork (we've seen some ridiculous open goal misses in the past) he'd have still been on the ground. The real villain is obviously Tudor, for picking a raw kid to play only his second match for Spurs, in a massive match in one of the "tastiest" grounds for atmosphere in Europe. That and blanking him as he came off. Hope the lad recovers, because that's potentially career destroying.

Currently Spurs look as though they will implode and possibly go down. I'm going to avoid all the jibes, banter etc though I've read some good stuff. I can't help but feel there position demonstrates the mess that PL football has become. Spurs being relegated will be a disaster...........for the Championship. I hope they stay up as Spurs playing in the Championship next season means there will almost certainly only be one other promotion spot to play for.

I do not want to see Tottenham in the Championship. Please stay up!

As an Arsenal fan, I want them to go down. But I'd rather win any one of the four trophies we're sill hunting than that.
I also think that relegation could be disastrous for them. The team needs a massive rebuild and a competent manager to do it, but can they attract (or even keep) the players and management for that? They're angling for Poch in the summer, after he's done with the world cup, but would he come back to a club in the Championship, that wants to be attracting Champions League level players? It's far from certain that they'd just bounce back. They'd have a massive target on their backs for every team that fancies having a go at a big club, in a big flash stadium.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Oh my word 😲 😭

 

[T4tomo]

watched the highlights of that Spurs game for giggles, but it wasn't just the keeper who slipped, a couple of defenders and attackers went over too. Maybe pitch was over watered. The spurs defender slipping let to the 2nd goal, that was no fault of the keeper, the first was an unfortunate slip and the third was a hooning miskick.

anyway i doubt we'll see him in English football again.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

watched the highlights of that Spurs game for giggles, but it wasn't just the keeper who slipped, a couple of defenders and attackers went over too. Maybe pitch was over watered. The spurs defender slipping let to the 2nd goal, that was no fault of the keeper, the first was an unfortunate slip and the third was a hooning miskick.

anyway i doubt we'll see him in English football again.

The whole team looked like they'd chosen the wrong studs