Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Yes, but being good at taking or saving penalties isn't a reflection of anything other than being able to take or save penalties. As such, it doesn't reflect anything about the game or the relative abilities of the players and reduces the game itself to meaninglessness. This makes it an enormously unsatisfactory and arbitrary way of settling a game.
What could reflect the game of football more than smashing the ball past the keeper and into the net?

In redg's absence someone has to stress this point imo.