The way of the shoot-out is to seek out not heroes but fools. More than any other device in sport, the shoot-out seeks only to belittle and diminish. There were three penalty misses at the end of the Champions League final between Manchester United and Chelsea and all three were deeply instructive of the hopes and illusions we had built about the penalty-takers.
Lesson of Terry's penalty misadventure
Many of football's greats have found themselves in the Chelsea captain's boots...
What becomes of football's broken-hearted?
Uli Hoeness missing for Germany
The German fans thanking him
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