Pelanty!

[setreal]

ABAB or ABBA?

 

Discus.

[Guest]

ABAB or ABBA?

 

Discus.

Waht?

[setreal]

http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/39798344

 

Uefa considers change to way penalty shootouts are staged

 

Penalty shootouts in football could be transformed to make them fairer under new plans being looked at by Uefa.

 

The sport's European governing body is already trialling a new way for penalties to be taken in decisive shootouts.

 

Instead of teams alternating spot-kicks, Uefa is considering a new system similar to the tie-break in tennis.

 

The system is being tried out at the European Under-17 Championship, which began in Croatia on Wednesday.

 

What makes the perfect World Cup shootout penalty?

 

How does it work?

 

As it stands, teams take turns in a shootout, with the choice of who goes first decided by a coin toss.

 

For example, team A goes first, then team B, then team A again.

 

The new system is called 'ABBA' and sees team A followed by team B - before team B goes again. Team A would then get two successive penalties, and so on until there is a winner.

 

A coin will still be tossed to decide who goes first.

 

Why is a change needed?

 

The idea is to stop the team going second having to always, potentially, play catch-up. The sport's rule-making body, Ifab, approved the trial after looking at research it says proves the team taking the first penalty have an unfair advantage as they win 60% of shootouts.

 

"The hypothesis is that the player taking the second kick in the pair is under greater mental pressure," said Uefa.

 

The system is also being trialled at the women's European Under-17 Championship, which began in the Czech Republic on Tuesday.

[Dave D]

And here I am.

 

Im not sure what to say

 

Im going

[El Dangerous]

The new penalty taking order. Winner takes it all.

[setreal]

Are you saying they should take a chance on the new system?

[Guest]

Money, Money, Money

[ZonkoVille77]

Does your mother know that this is fuckin shite?

[Paulie Dangerously]

ABBA, that's the name of the game

[Red Dawn]

Too much!!!

I fear this could be UEFA's Waterloo.

[magicrat]

Makes sense and is fairer. Gets my vote, that said why EUFA are fiddling about with minor details and ignoring the elephant in the room, namely video reffing , is beyond me. We can have fairer pelanty shoot outs but do fuck all about cheating cunts that throw themselves about in the the area to con the ref. 

[setreal]

I agree it seems like a good idea for a change.

[PestiRed]

The real question here is how are the frothing masses at GOT going to claim that UEFA are only doing this (or not) to ensure that we win more European Cups?

[TheHowieLama]

Discus??!!

 

[Strontium]

I think this is a great idea, I do, I do, I do.

[KMD7]

Not sure it is tbh.  Say the first team miss then the second team have an opportunity to go 2 up before the first team go again. Huge pressure on team 1 to score then.  Not for me Clive. 

 

I spent all of 20 seconds thinking that one out.  I'm bored

[Strontium]

Say the first team miss then the second team have an opportunity to go 2 up before the first team go again. Huge pressure on team 1 to score then.  Not for me Clive.

 

Pretty identical to the situation at the moment, where team one can go 2 up if team two miss their first penalty.

 

What this does is alternate the pressure between the teams, instead of piling it all on team two.

[KMD7]

I should have spent more than 20 seconds thinking about it

[M_B]

Mamma Mia, thats quite a good idea.

[Bjornebye]

As much as i love watching shootouts as long as we aren't involved I reckon golden goal was as fair as you can get.

[magicrat]

The real question here is how are the frothing masses at GOT going to claim that UEFA are only doing this (or not) to ensure that we win more European Cups?

 

Probably because even they realise we haven't a prayer

[Chip Butty]

I believe in Brett Angel

[G Richards]

Who would take these penalties? Fernando? Or how about little pea, Chiquitita? 

[TheHowieLama]

Should do like they go in NHL - 3 a side in extra time.

[Arl arse]

Dancing Queen.