I made a list of all the penalty shoot-outs involving Spurs/England since 1998. See if you can guess how many of these we were victorious... 1998 England v Argentina 2003 Spurs v Middlesbrough 2004 Spurs v Liverpool 2004 England v Portugal 2006 England v Portugal 2008 PSV v Spurs 2009 Spurs v Man United 2011 Stoke v Spurs 2012 Bayern Munich v Chelsea 2012 England v Italy Horrendous!
I have never seen a team I support win a shoot out. I have no idea what the feeling is like. Losing isn't even disappointing anymore, it's normal!!
Same here, Roo. I'd love to know the feeling!! No doubt when we do win one it'll be against some conference team and we'll carry a sense of embarrassment rather than euphoria
fuksake what a depressing fact you have brought to my attention with regards Spurs,my beloved Spurs. articles like this make me roll a fat one!
i was talking to my mate as the final whistle went i said to him we're out now,even when the Italians missed i knew we would F*uk it up.
Actually when they missed one I thought we actually had a chance. When I saw who was taking our next one I realised we didn't.
It saved us being embarrased by Germany in the semis. We would have shipped 7 or 8 goals with that pile of rubbish. No wonder the Germans wanted us to win, they could have rested their first team for the Final.
A game where Spain had a legitimate goal chalked off in regular time. I don't recall many people demanding goal-line technology for that one...
There's that bizarre coincidence (or psychological factor??) that the team who misses the first penalty usually goes on to win the shoot-out, as demonstrated again last night
I'm old enough to remember seeing us win the UEFA cup back in 1984 on penalties...Danny Thomas missed one for us and WHL to a man started chanting there's only one danny thomas! And then when tony parks saved the final penalty he pretty much did a lap of honour...great night!
Funny how predictable some things can be. "Is any other outcome possible than 0-0, Italy winning on penalty kicks?" I said to at least two people before the game. I also knew when Spurs went on their little run the last few games it was only to make the eventual disappointment worse. "Bayern will go ahead, then Chelsea will tie. Then Bayern will go ahead in the penalty kicks. Then Chelsea will win," I said before the Bayern Chelsea game. When Bayern scored I hardly moved a muscle in my face. "Chelsea will tie it up." If I could predict stocks like this I'd be a billionaire.
