sounds like daffy duck and bugs bunny to me'Despicable'- thought that word was reserved for Suarez .....
sounds like daffy duck and bugs bunny to me'Despicable'- thought that word was reserved for Suarez .....
It's been done loads of times by a striker trying to get his hatrick and such like, but exclusively when the side is 3 or 4 up at least.i recall suarez tried this on at lfc for all of one pen... didn't drogba or someone do the same with lampard at chelsea...
just trying to think... the difference here is mirallas has been at everton a long time letting baines smash em home so its only yesterday he does it.... I've no issue with a manager straightening out an ego or a club pen take telling a new guy to f the f off and putting them in their place publicly if a ego decides as the new guy he should take em.
It's been done loads of times by a striker trying to get his hatrick and such like, but exclusively when the side is 3 or 4 up at least.
I can't remember ever seeing it at 0-0 in a crucial game
Don't get me wrong - I do not like Mirrales. Good player but a real sh*thouse and a snide c*nt. Surprised not many pundits have picked up on his nasty side.
But I rather have a player with that level of self belief than some timid lad.
I can't remember ever seeing it.Don't ask me when but its happened in the past but the player usually scores so goes under the radar.
I can't remember ever seeing it.
Teams have designated penalty takers, unless the player doesn't fancy it for whatever reason and chooses to pass it to a team mate, but at 0-0 it's never an ego trip decision.
I'd have still stoned him to death for it, even if he scored btw.
Maybe it's his equivalent of the Suarez bite - he's looking to leave ....He created an issue for no reason, he didn't even win the penalty or have any record to chase
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...sh-Sportsmail-looks-blazing-penalty-rows.htmlDon't ask me when but its happened in the past but the player usually scores so goes under the radar.
In terms of football it is pretty bad. As they said at the time can you think of anything worse to do on a football pitch, own goals and mistakes happen all the time but to refuse to let your best penalty taker have it because they wanted it instead is awful.
If Gerrard steps up to take a pen and Coutinho takes it off of him refusing to listening to others and misses it,meh doesn't play for us again.
It's boderline scoring an own goal on purpose in terms of what's worse to do.

Is that the same for freekicks and corners...? If so, we've been ****ting on ourselves for years with the latter![]()
Both are set pieces which aren't likable to score. A penalty is a goal scoring opportunity.
Jagielka should've sorted this out. He's the captain, the manager's voice on pitch, so he should have final word on what goes and what doesn't. Incident suggests to me that Martinez doesn't command the respect of his players or has no order in place in that team. It's like what's been said, you know at certain clubs who takes the pens, corners, free kicks etc and you challenge their taking them at pain of death and risk a roasting afterwards. There's obviously no fear of authority for Mirallas at Toffees. Maybe Martinez's nicey nice persona is to blame and why his teams ultimately collapse in on themselves.
Its quite possible that Martinez as never named Baines as the recognised penalty taker, he was the regular taker before JM arrived so they could have just carried on without discussing it.