The thing that REALLY causes anxiety and pulls people out of position is not taking your chances; we ought to have been a couple of goals to the good long before they scored.
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No, not buying it, I'm afraid. Not even approaching the shop to buy it. In fact, I'm not even going anywhere near the town that has a shop that's selling it!
Goals Change Games. Controlling things at 2-0 up or at 0-0 or even at 2-0 down are entirely different things.
Regardless of the score, indeed! Good. Lord.
I know you're right; all that money for a parking meter rather than a striker, says it all. Which consequently makes your second point even more baffling. In England "controlling the game" always meant the same as "time-wasting". We like our centre forwards to have the ball, not our centre-halves or central midfielders.