I know Quashie was the first person to miss one in... some stupid amount of years. Maybe even the first since Le Tiss/Crossley. EDIT: Just looked it up. Quashie missed in January 2006, the last miss before that was Jim Magilton in April 1997. Almost nine years of no missed penalties.
I knew there was a half-decent reason for forgetting. My abiding memory of Saints players taking penalties is that generally they don't miss. I suppose I'm thankful that they lost a penalty shoot-out to Derby.
Billy Sharp had one saved the other season, didn't he when Lambert wasn't on the pitch? My mind is completely, totally and utterly blank on whom we were playing. Not that that's in any way unusual for me nowadays. Oh no. What were we talking about? Why am I in the room? Vin
I think someone produced stats which showed we have the best conversion rate in the PL (over a number of years...can't remember how many) because we had MLT, Beattie and Lambert.
Well, noticing the footballers you are highlighting there, and seeing as how many football reporters believe that football didn't really exist before the Premier League, I would expect that the stats were produced to cover the years since the Premier League was formed. In that instance I would expect Saints to do well, because even when MLT, Beatts or Lambert weren't/aren't taking the penalties, we seemed to have players who were more than competent from the penalty spot, for example, Jim Magilton, Jason Dodd, I believe also took a couple. Peter Crouch I think as well. Quashie was an exception, as was Leon Best, Billy Sharp, and anyone else I don't wish to remember, who missed.
Billy Sharp missed in the Championship...stats were about the PL years so all those lovely Lambert ones didn't really count
