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By an amazing coincidence, yesterday (July 17th) was the anniversary of Roberto Baggio’s penalty miss in the final of the 1994 World Cup.

Says Baggio in his autobiography:

“Looking back I have to say that losing a World Cup final on penalties is something that I’ll never agree with. If you lose on the pitch, that’s fine, it’s right. Even if you deserved something different. But with penalties, no, that’s not right. Is it right that four years of sacrifice are decided by three minutes of penalties? I don’t think so. Losing that way isn’t right, and neither is winning that way.”

This pretty much echoes what I said in yesterday’s post on the problems with the penalty shootout.