Our best ever penalty taker

[broomhillblade]

Fred Furniss (for those of us who are of a 'certain age'.)

 

[finlaytheblade]

Apologies if this thread has been done before but after seeing Blackman's pen against us on Wednesday it got me thinking. I was just getting into football when Duffield was about but in my lifetime it has to be Blackman I think

Seen all our penalty takers for 60+ years and it has to be Blackmail, made goalies look like fools

 

[pommpey]

Woodward.

Seem to recall some or other article about penalties in Shoot with the likes of Woody and Jimmy Gabriel of Southampton, who was another 5'8" brick shithouse who was deadly from twelve yards. He said that if you hit it within a yard of the posts, unless the keeper is already moving that way, he'll never get to it. When I used to do coaching, I used to turn the hockey goal round and put it inside the net and get my players to aim at the gaps and just imagine the goal being inside the goal if they had to take one in a match. From being a keeper, its very hard to get to a firmly struck shot which is just inside the posts - its just having the confidence to do it. Woody used to bury penalties at pace, mostly where the keeper was left grasping at thin air giving them no chance. Murray's pen the other night was hedging so much rick that Hart would dive and it only just missed his foot.

Most outrageous pen I have seen was Milosevic's at the Lane. Cheeky cunt.

pommpey

 

[CarlingBlade]

Yes, he did score them all.

The mention of Hulse/Unsworth puts me in mind of something else: United missing 2 pens in the same game (not in shootouts). I can think of the following examples:

Unsworth/Hulse v the 0-0 draw Blackburn in 2006/7 (and Blackburn also missed one, of course)
Bryson/Bradshaw in the 2-0 3rd round cup win v Bournemouth in 1990 (Bryson following up to score: Paul Stancliffe, of all people, got to the rebound first, crossed, and Bryson headed it in)
Jim Iley in a 2-2 draw in the 1950's (I think the only time the same player has missed 2 in the same game for us: Iley missed another 2 weeks later).

Has this happened any other time? Billy Sharp nearly did it against Colchester last year but got to retake one.

I can also think of at least 1 other game aside from Blackburn where both sides missed a penalty - the 4-2 win at Oxford in 1997-8, where Deano hit the post for us and Nigel Jemson missed for them (though he followed up to score after Tracey made the save). We were awarded another pen, which Fjortoft scored. I assume both sides missing has happened in other games though none spring immediately to mind.

Paul Devlin once had a pen saved late on v QPR, the ref came to our rescue and ordered a retake, Devlin hit it in exactly the same spot with the same outcome, saved by the keeper.

 

[bramptonblade]

Woody!

 

[ucandomagic]

Interesting thing about Blackman is that as he wanders up, stops, waits for the keeper to go and puts it in the other side, what would he do if the keeper stood dead still. Would he stop as well, turn round and start again? Also, you would have thought he would have been rumbled by now by a keeper faking to go one way when he does his stutter, but I guess he’s just too good at it.

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Got to be Woody but James Beattie was fucking good, even though I wasn't mad on him as a player.

I'm surprised thar more people haven't copied his technique of placing the ball on the spot then walking away with his back to goal, suddenly swivelling and smashing the ball into the net. It seemed to completely dumbfound goalies and didn't give them chance to produce their off putting antics.

 

[I should coco]

We need this lad who makes Simonsen look confident.

he scored it though....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41728826

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

We need this lad who makes Simonsen look confident.

he scored it though....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41728826

Amazing !!! Never seen anything remotely like it.

 

[Silent Blade]

Most outrageous pen I have seen was Milosevic's at the Lane. Cheeky cunt.

pommpey

It was Dwight Yorke who scored the cheeky penalty. It was Milosevic who conned the ref into thinking he got tripped

 

[super_pig]

It was Dwight Yorke who scored the cheeky penalty. It was Milosevic who conned the ref into thinking he got tripped

milosevic got some rather ‘marginal’ abuse i seem to remember

 

[Silent Blade]

milosevic got some rather ‘marginal’ abuse i seem to remember

Hodges came on as sub soon after, got close to Milosevic, dug his elbows at his ribs and ankle tapped him. Milosevic complained to the ref but the ref ignored him. Few seconds later Hodges had the ball, Milosevic ran straight for him, but Hodges sold him a dummy and then dragged the ball away from him in quick succession. The crowd roared their approval leaving Milosevic looking dejected! Brilliant!

 

[Punk Blade]

For me it’s about having a style/technique that can produced consistently.

1. James Beattie. Refuse to put the ball on the spot until the goalie is on his line and done with any attempts at gamesmanship, then turns his back...

2. Peter Ndlovu. Always send the goalie one way, then coolly roll it a yard the other way.

3. Andy Gray. Also good at sending be goalie the wrong way, but not as cool as Ndlovu. When that penalty was awarded at Highbury I already knew it was a goal.

 

[Kentblade]

Fred Furniss (for those of us who are of a 'certain age'.)

Totally agree Broomhill.
UTB

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

James Beattie. Real conviction.

 

[Aston max]

Don Givens.

Don Givens.

 

[John Street West Terrace]

Apologies if this thread has been done before but after seeing Blackman's pen against us on Wednesday it got me thinking. I was just getting into football when Duffield was about but in my lifetime it has to be Blackman I think

Gotta be whoa Tony ,Tony ...Tony , Tony , Tony Tony Kenworthy

I know my fingers have got a stutter

 

[metalblade]

Can't believe no one has mentioned Chris Porter