Quotes & Sayings About Football Penalties

A handful of individual football stars - not necessarily the most talented, but those boasting good looks, beautiful wives and an animated private life - assumed a role in European public life and popular newspapers hitherto reserved for movie starlets or minor royalty. When David Beckham (an English player of moderate technical gifts but an unsurpassed talent for self-promotion) moved from Manchester United to Real Madrid in 2003, it made headline television news in every member-state of the European Union. Beckham's embarrassing performance at the European Football Championships in Portugal the following year - the England captain missed two penalties, hastening his country's ignominious early departure - did little to dampen the enthusiasm of his fans. — Tony Judt

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama. — Simon Barnes

He didn't give the penalty but I've seen them given for worse — Angus Loughran

Liverpool's grand opera also gave us some light comedy - on hearing the news that the house of goalkeeper Pepe Reina was burgled, and his Porsche stolen, while he was heroically saving penalties at Anfield, fans took a typically witty line: police were said to be interviewing a man from the West London area, a certain Frank Lampard, whose whereabouts on Tuesday between 7.45pm and 10.15pm are unknown. Indeed. — Declan Lynch

No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That's my only regret but no, no regrets. — Mick McCarthy

That was never a penalty in a million planets. — Alan McInally

That was the perfect penalty - apart from he missed it. — Rob McCaffrey