Intentionally missed penalty

gosplan

Anyone know the reason for this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8yScQtk-0

Iang87

Nope

dreamers75

gosplan wrote: »

Anyone know the reason for this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u8yScQtk-0


in the description

With Termoli leading 1-nothing (3-2 on aggregate), the hosts were awarded a 90th minute penalty when striker Vittorio Esposito went down in the box despite a lack of contact from a Torres defender. Furious protests from the Torres team came to nothing as the referee refused to budge from his decision. But there was a twist.

Clearly suffering under the weight of guilt from winning a penalty that never was, Vittorio Esposito took matters into his own hands by purposefully fluffing the spot-kick. The gesture was warmly received by Torres (who nevertheless were dumped out the cup) and has since turned Esposito into something of a cult hero.

kitakyushu

I wonder would his conscience have been so tugged had his team actually needed the goal to progress? Something tells me he'd have got over his guilt in that situation.

losthorizon

Not the oddest thing I've heard about> Athlone Towns goalie used to swing from the crossbar in the 1970s like a monkey. In one match Athlone were on the attack so often that he kept on swinging and broke the crossbar not once but twice. He was sent off!

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/the-loneliness-of-the-longterm-goalie-511740.html

GLaDOS

losthorizon wrote: »

Not the oddest thing I've heard about> Athlone Towns goalie used to swing from the crossbar in the 1970s like a monkey. In one match Athlone were on the attack so often that he kept on swinging and broke the crossbar not once but twice. He was sent off!

http://www.independent.ie/opinion/analysis/the-loneliness-of-the-longterm-goalie-511740.html

That article is hilarious

cson

I remember Robbie Fowler pointing to where he was going to hit a penalty to David Seaman after Paul Durkin awarded it and Fowler protested that it wasn't one. God be with the days of honesty.

Jason McAteer followed up and scored the rebound though the wanker. All the same I always liked Liverpool after that.

fullstop

cson wrote: »

I remember Robbie Fowler pointing to where he was going to hit a penalty to David Seaman after Paul Durkin awarded it and Fowler protested that it wasn't one. God be with the days of honesty.

Jason McAteer followed up and scored the rebound though the wanker. All the same I always liked Liverpool after that.

Don't remember Fowler pointing where he was going to hit it

I remember him protesting it wasn't a penalty and missing it alright...

Oranage2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrcX6kpkU0

Hmmmm interesting

massdebater

cson wrote: »

I remember Robbie Fowler pointing to where he was going to hit a penalty to David Seaman after Paul Durkin awarded it and Fowler protested that it wasn't one. God be with the days of honesty.

Jason McAteer followed up and scored the rebound though the wanker. All the same I always liked Liverpool after that.

Fowler protested initially but he tried to score the peno and even celebrated with McAteer after he scored the rebound!

GLaDOS

Doesn't seem like Fowler made any attempt to intentionally miss there.

keith16

Fowler even went in for the follow up...

IvySlayer

Still better than Charlie Adams.