No, not QPR v (insert your most disliked club - Millwall for me) but strikers, balls, walls and goalies. Have you ever wondered why a striker, with only the goal to beat, ends up shooting directly at the goalie? Watch Downing's goal from a free kick yesterday.Why did the two Spurs players in the wall turn sideways, away from the ball, and let it through for the goal? Similarly, why did Adel duck for Maloney's free kick (light blue tough paper...). There seems to be some sort of primeval instinct that makes the striker shoot at the target like some sort of hunter / gatherer after his prey and the converse amongst the prey to turn away from the missile. Goalies, of course, are the exception. They have trained them selves to put themselves in direct line of the missile. I wonder whether strikers and members of the wall might be trained appropriately? My morning musing in an effort to distract myself from 19:45 9.5.14 and our destiny with fate.
Guess it is just human nature. That is what defines a goalie from other positions...a goalie will react by putting himself in the line of fire, others seemingly won't. That said, I'm sure we've all been bemused as to why defenders don't just allow themselves to get hit. I remember being hit in the face with a wet, muddy, stone infested sponge ball at Primary school, and nothing can be worse than that!
