Our worst ever penalty

[Devonfox1884]

Not the worst by any stretch, but didn’t Perez nearly kill a fan at Stockport with one a few years back?  

[The off]

8 hours ago, glenny_fox said:

As someone who just wellied any penos, can anybody actually tell me why pretty much all players nowadays do that stupid stutter runup? at the point of actually hitting the ball they are effectively hitting it from a standstill, and get zero power on it.

That was exactly our conversation last night, just blast it as hard as you can, even if the goalkeeper gets a hand to it the power and speed of the ball could push his hand back. I cannot grasp that these 'professional players' are this useless at penalties. I'd have them practicing penalties for an hour everyday hitting small targets in the goal mouth until they have 99% accuracy at high speed!

[Nuge]

‘The stupid w**nker chipped it’

Edited 14 August 2025 by Nuge

[Vlad the Fox]

13 hours ago, Aus Fox said:

Special mention to Knockaert away at Watford…

Surely our best ever penalty miss with what happened after  

[M1 J38]

If you'll indulge a contribution from an opponent...

 

We've had plenty of penalty discussions on our (Huddersfield) forum of late. Not just because of the shootout this week but also because in the opening game of the season we scored our first penalty at home with with a crowd in the ground for over five years. We've a pretty shite record with one-off penalties awarded in games, as Dion Charles demonstrated... but in shoot-outs we've a pretty unbelievable record.

 

With the silly run-ups or chips, if it comes off you look like an absolute genius but if it doesn't you look a proper Charlie. I'd always go with the "if in doubt, just smack it hard down the middle" approach!

[ParkerPen]

7 hours ago, M1 J38 said:

If you'll indulge a contribution from an opponent...

 

We've had plenty of penalty discussions on our (Huddersfield) forum of late. Not just because of the shootout this week but also because in the opening game of the season we scored our first penalty at home with with a crowd in the ground for over five years. We've a pretty shite record with one-off penalties awarded in games, as Dion Charles demonstrated... but in shoot-outs we've a pretty unbelievable record.

 

With the silly run-ups or chips, if it comes off you look like an absolute genius but if it doesn't you look a proper Charlie. I'd always go with the "if in doubt, just smack it hard down the middle" approach!

I remember back in the dark ages, Matt elliott scored several in a row just like that