Best spot kick taker?

[Sukhwa]

Who is the best spot kick taker in the world? My pick is Shearer as his penalty misses are rare and far between.

[Luther_Gabriel]

Ruud van Nistelrooy is awesome. He is so good that he took over as Man U's primary penalty taker, replacing David Beckham!!! Now that's saying alot.

[Metros Striker10]

cough Roberto Baggio cough

He's a great player, but just can't score on PKs. He's taken about 5 or 6 so far this year, and has missed 2.

[rymannryan]

Originally posted by Sukhwa
Who is the best spot kick taker in the world? My pick is Shearer as his penalty misses are rare and far between.


I'll second that. Shearer is so great at the spot, though I'll agree with the other person that RVN is pretty damn good as well.

[Leto]

Originally posted by Luther_Gabriel
Ruud van Nistelrooy is awesome. He is so good that he took over as Man U's primary penalty taker, replacing David Beckham!!! Now that's saying alot.

*sigh*

Denis Irwin was Man Utd's penalty taker for ten years up until last season when age forced him into a squad player role, which coincided nicely which the purchase of Van Nistelrooy. Beckham was never their primary penalty taker - if Irwin was on the field, he took it. Now, if Van Nistelrooy's on the field, he takes it.

Seeing as you so kindly brought him up, I'd also like to nominate Denis Irwin retrospectively for this award :)

Beckham is not a deity, and you obviously haven't been a Man Utd fan for very long. I'm not either, by the way, but I like to keep up with events.

[Scotty]

Giuseppe Signori

[pololo]

Romario

[Bobplayed]

Best ever was probably Cantona! he sent the keeper the wrong way nearly every time... Current day hmmmmm... just bringing up a name no one has said yet... Di Cannio?

[RichardL]

Matt Le Tissier at Southampton had a good record - 49 scored from 50 attempts.

[schmuckatelli]

Originally posted by RichardL
Matt Le Tissier at Southampton had a good record - 49 scored from 50 attempts.
Wait a minute... wasn't LeTiss one who missed v. Argentina in WC98? Or maybe I'm confusing him with someone else...

[Becks7]

Originally posted by Sukhwa
Who is the best spot kick taker in the world? My pick is Shearer as his penalty misses are rare and far between.

Shearer didn't fare too well last game...

[gerr18]

Originally posted by Becks7
Shearer didn't fare too well last game...

yeah...and your point is? He's still the best spot kick taker in the premiership now...despite missing.


Also, it wasn't Le Tissier who missed in WC 98, but David Batty.

[Becks7]

Originally posted by gerr18
yeah...and your point is? He's still the best spot kick taker in the premiership now...despite missing.


Ya...and that's my point he didn't do too well...i didn't say he's shiet, i just said he had a bad spot kick,

But if you saw it, you have to admit it was pretty bad.

[Leto]

Everyone has an off day.

How about Alex Del Piero?

[Boro_lad]

well i cant nominate any boro players considering the fact that its coming up to 2 seasons with out even getting 1 penalty given to us.....

[Luther_Gabriel]

Alessandro Del Piero, Luis Figo, and Andriy Shevchenko are a few of the best outside of the EPL.

[Sao Taffarel]

Matt Le Tissier of Southampton (just retired) has an excellent record.

[minorthreat]

Originally posted by Luther_Gabriel
Alessandro Del Piero, Luis Figo, and Andriy Shevchenko are a few of the best outside of the EPL. I'm not so sure about Figo. The best penalty taker in the Liga Primera as far as I'm concerned is either Fernando Hierro or Gaizka Mendieta.

[Scotty]

Originally posted by schmuckatelli
Wait a minute... wasn't LeTiss one who missed v. Argentina in WC98? Or maybe I'm confusing him with someone else...

LeTissier wasn't at WC98.

You are thinking of David Batty and Paul Ince.

[Sao Taffarel]

Le Tissier played very few times for England. He was a very talented individual when it came to ball mastery.