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This is what i think of the Europeann Cup being decided on penalties...

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by twee_loser

what an awful cop-out. A competition that should be the ultimate highlight of players, managers & fans lives, decided by putting one kick of a football an inch wide of a target. Well done, but really, pretty sad. This about sums it up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imUPH9sENwA

twee_loser | 21 May '08, 23:18 | Send note | Report this | Reply

I like penalty shoot-outs.

They're exciting.


I've got a parade going on this weekend

would you like to come and piss on it?


I'm sure I will

but I'd be mean if I didn't give him the chance, he'd enjoy it so much


I'm always up for a golden shower.

Not to keen on going to Leicester again, though. Train to Manc or meat halfway. Stoke Travel Inn?


You can piss on Stoke any time

Saves me the trouble


^

you'll never get a better offer!!


haha did you see

trevor mcdonald trying to report on the itv news the man u win, haha was terrible


I sort of agree

but unless someone can propose a better system it's kind of a moot point...


I mean in a way the fairest thing to do at that stage would be share the trophy

but obviously from a commercial (and indeed fan) perspective there probably has to be a winner randomly selected by some means or other...


replay, for me.

although it might cost the fans more money, and i am against fans being bled dry to watch multi-millionaires run half-heartedly for an hour and a half, a replay MUST be better than penalties? Failing that, as i said the other day, have free-kick shoot outs, or half-way line pens. At least there's some skill to that.


I guess there's two prpblems with replays

The one you've already alluded to that fans'd get charged a fortune for the final, not see a winner and get charged a fortune for a replay.

The other of course is the old days of the FA Cup where certain games got replayed multiple times and it just became way too many games for clubs to cope with (less a problem at the end of the season of course...

Can see the logic of free kick shootouts though...


a replay is

the absolute worst idea. there is nothing wrong with penalites, youre just bitter about the outcome.


come off it.

United will go down as 'heroes', 'that night in Moscow' will be lauded for years and years, players will be expected to leave clubs because of one missed penalty after nine months of football, it makes no sense. Penalties are the least technical or moral way of deciding it, anyone with any common sense at all can see that, whoever won.


....

I really don't think this final will be remembered for anything other than a way to decide the winner. It wasn;t a great battle to win, it was a war of attrition, half way through I think both sides became a bit too scared to lose it, and I think that's a problem in modern football, the risk of losing is just too great.


Vorderman

MILF.


jus the 4 for me.

FILM


i actually like penalty shoot-outs.

only when your team wins. when your team loses, it's absolute hell.

p.s. however, i'd prefer a good old-fashoned battle royale for the winner.


I think as entertainment they're great

but it is true they are pretty much random pot luck and as such maybe not the fairest way to settle a major competition.


They

are part of the game. we have to deal with it, win or lose.

i like it when teams i dont like lose.


Toss of a coin.

Old Skool muthafucka.


the thing is though

a whole game can be judged on equally fine margins. e.g. if drogbas shot had been an inch to the left chelsea would have wom. ultimately penalties are the best solution available. i still hate them though.


Shut the fuck up

and have a cry wank into your Black Flag t-shirt!


Oh sorry

i meant your Test Icicles t shirt you twat.


i have both

make your mind up you silly cunt. and maybe try using your real username and being less of a coward?


Well which

do you use to wank into and which do you use to pose around town in being all 'Punk Rock'?


i usually wank into your mum

if we are being honest.


Yeah she said

after she told me she caught AIDS off some pin dick loser. We're not close.


Thats not what she told me

oh for fucks sake this is boring. who are you?


You know

Who I am, its obvious right?


no idea


MUNICH CUNTS

snow, snow we want more snow
the stuff that brought the plane down
the stuff that brought the plane down

Who's that lying on the runway
Who's that lying in the snow
Its Matt Busby and his boys
making all the fucking noise
coz they couldn't get the airplane to go


pathetic


Fuck off


I love the internet

so easy to real in a load of self opinionated goon's


you

do understand that chelsea won nothing this season right?

Wait! i am wrong, you have runners up medals to 2 cups....


Go play

Soccer, yankee doodle!


It's called history

something which our club is steeped in and which Chelsea have a complete lack of.


You are a complete twat

as is chelski_08 of course, but unlike you I imagine he is aware of how stupid his post is


Thanks.

Slight overreaction to a heat of the moment reply to some wind up merchant?

Yes, my post was stupid, but I was slightly enraged by his post. Shouldn't have wasted my time really. I bet they don't even support Chelsea. I don't think it warrants calling me a complete twat...

Why am I justifying this? I don't really know.


The Cunt In The Office

was holding court on the game and its outcome until someone else remarked on how silly Ronaldo looked, which surprised him as he was genuinely unaware that Ronaldo had taken a penalty. He then launched into an extended routine about how Ronaldo reminds him of Norman Wisdom, which seemed to hinge on the detail (in his head) that Ronaldo can't score goals.


It comes down to luck, which sucks a bit

but I can't think of a better way to sort it really


Precisely

What happens if the reply finishes in a draw?

Yes, it means tiny things can decide the outcome but isn't that what happens in big games? What if Tevez had been 2 inches closer to that cross? What if Lampard hadn't followed the ball and got that deflection. Modern sport is a game of inches, and penalties just reflects that


i kind of agree...

but what other alternative is there?


this was one of the few times i didnt mind a penalty shoot out

I mean the players were sliding all over the place, all getting cramp, getting battered and bloody and starting to lose their tempers. I dont think it would have been good to go on much longer. and anyway it gives a different element of excitement


games end in shootouts if it's a tie

but terry missing is proof that karma exists. what a cunt.


i liked golden goal

it reminded me of school.

but i also quite like penalties, it's a test of the mental strength of the team after the physical battle is drawn.