So chris powell needs a penalty taker.... http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/Sport.cfm?id=33834&headline=Charlton
my bet is signing of the season and loads of champ teams then want him. didnt work here but had glimses of class.
I think he may do well for them. He is a very good footballer technically but not very good with the style of this league. Maybe he will be more suited to league 1 Good luck to him
I'm a big softy so I actually felt sorry for him. It was an atrocious penalty but he isn't the first player and won't be the last to miss an important one in a big match. Good luck to him and Chris Powell.
I felt for Waggy but not this clown. Seriously, trying to show-boat at a key point in a key match is a near executionable offense in my book! I sometimes wonder if he was even aware of the magnitude of that match! Yeah sure, if it had gone in, the Kermogant story may have been very different, but it didn't, and whats more, he didn't deserve it - it was a display of unfounded arrogance and I despise the imbecile. If I hope he does well, then it's for Powelly's sake, not his own.
Seriously, get over it. He took a few pens like that. He was a half decent player and could play in half the champ sides. What about waggy who blasted it and missed - same result...oh, he had PASHHHHHUUUN...bollox. they both tried to score and missed. Au revoir Kermit et bon chance mon ami.
Regardless, he shouldn't be taking penalties like that in a play-off semi-final. Those penalties should only ever be taken to take the piss when you are winning easily, and probably not even then. If you are nervous, you have a better chance of scoring if you smash it on target rather than chipping it. Honestly, do you think Kermorgant chipped it because he thought it gave him the best chance of scoring or because he thought it was the 'coolest' way of scoring?
Exactly. And yes, both he and Waggy missed, but Waggy missed doing it the right way, he just over-hit it. Kermit definitely DID NOT take it the right way.
What an overush of adrenaline by waggy that made him blast it over.....but then that's all waggy ever did since that game - blast it over. Kermit made a mistake and was made to look foolish - plenty of players have sent it down the middle - he just fluffed it under pressure. No need to hang the chap out to dry. It's pathetic the way he has been made a scapegoat for missing a pen.
Yes, God forbid anyone should carry the can for something they did! Even if Kermit had scored I would have been furious at him taking such a risk. He's not been made a scaepgoat - as you pointed out, Waggy missed the decisive penalty. He must have known that the Leicester fans - the people who pay his excessive wages - were down to the raw nerves that night. I wouldn't have blamed him if he'd blasted it and missed. But to take it like that - that's not how he was taught to play the game I'm sure. He tried to instill himself as some sort of footballing hero, so when it backfired I'm sure not even he's surprised that he is now deemed the opposite to this.
If Kermorgant had scored that penalty, I don't think anyone would be complaining about it. I'm not angry with the fact eh chipped it, it was just a very bad chip. If you're going to do it, you need to get more height on it so a diving keeper falling to his side can't stick out an arm to save it and he probably put too much backspin on it which made it dip sooner than it needed to. But I'm not angry with Kermit himself - he missed a penalty just like Waggy did. The reason he didn't succeed wasn't because he missed a penalty, it was because he wasn't good enough in the 46 games prior to that.
That's the whole point - he chipped it like he was Cantona, yet he wasn't even good enough to get in our first team. I would have still been angry with him if he'd scored, but true, it would have been forgotten after that week. We are all judged by our actions - he took a bigger risk than was unnecessary which didn't come off so he will always be remembered for that.
You see, I was angry because he tried to chip it. If he'd taken it like Waggy and had it saved, fair enough. If he'd blasted it over the bar, I'd be slightly more disappointed in him because I hink you should be hitting the target, but I would have forgiven him. If he'd chipped it and scored, I'd still think he was a prick, but I'd have no reason to hate him for it. He chipped, it failed - so as far as I'm concerned he's a prick and I hate him. If Waggy had done the same my opinion would have been the same, the only players I might have forgiven would have been real club heroes who had done great things for us, but I'd still have been angry with them for some time.
