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A Tory MP 'Appalled' by anything connected to the City of Liverpool.

Well, there's something you don't see very often .....
 
Reading the Sky rundown of the current Leicester-West Brom game, Leicester have a 'keeper named Hamer. That's just wrong! You need to be a hard **** midfielder with a belter of a shot on you to carry that name!

He's conceded already to Jay Rodriguez. Who I didn't even realise had left Southampton. Learn something new every day.
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
Reading the Sky rundown of the current Leicester-West Brom game, Leicester have a 'keeper named Hamer. That's just wrong! You need to be a hard **** midfielder with a belter of a shot on you to carry that name!

He's conceded already to Jay Rodriguez. Who I didn't even realise had left Southampton. Learn something new every day.
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The two local Hamers I know (father and son) are both hard **** goal keepers who are a bit mental!
 
ninjaskill said:
The team that goes first has a 60% chance of winning as once it gets to a sudden death point in the shootout it is psychologically harder to score when trying to stay in the fame as opposed to when trying to win/go ahead
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And then if that flips to the team going second they'll be shouts to reverse it back! Or some other pointless change.

The only people that ever complain about penalty shoot-outs are those that lose. Completely fair test of nerve and skill that everyone knows the rules/ stakes prior to a match/ tie. And just about the fairest way to ultimately end something. Still personally not heard any better or fairer idea put forward than straight penalties.

If it aint broke, don't fix it!
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
And then if that flips to the team going second they'll be shouts to reverse it back! Or some other pointless change.

The only people that ever complain about penalty shoot-outs are those that lose. Completely fair test of nerve and skill that everyone knows the rules/ stakes prior to a match/ tie. And just about the fairest way to ultimately end something. Still personally not heard any better or fairer idea put forward than straight penalties.

If it aint broke, don't fix it!
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It splits the disadvantage of shooting to stay in between the two sides if it goes on. I would say that winning a coin toss giving you a 60% chance of winning showing that it could be fairer and this change should make it fairer
 
Scouseinthehouse said:
And then if that flips to the team going second they'll be shouts to reverse it back! Or some other pointless change.

The only people that ever complain about penalty shoot-outs are those that lose. Completely fair test of nerve and skill that everyone knows the rules/ stakes prior to a match/ tie. And just about the fairest way to ultimately end something. Still personally not heard any better or fairer idea put forward than straight penalties.

If it aint broke, don't fix it!
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Maybe I'm biased as a field hockey player, but I like the shootouts we use, similar to ice hockey. You've got a clock with 8 seconds on it and a one vs one with the keeper. It's a better test of hockey ability than just penalty flicks, just as it would be a greater test of footballing ability from both the keeper and strikers than penalties. Seems a better way to decide the game than taking 120 mins of football and turning it into single kicks. The idea is to find the better footballing team, not the one best at penalties.

Also agree with Ninja that the ABBA format is more balanced, similar to a tiebreak in tennis - which also incidentally, tests the ability of the players in tennis, not in one aspect like serving until you do a fault or something. The ABBA doesn't get used in hockey but I'd welcome it if it was
 
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