More of a lottery if you don't practise them

On Sunday, for the second time in the space of a season, Harry Redknapp lost a penalty shootout to Manchester United. He said after the match that there was no point in practising penalties since it was all a lottery. And to think that he almost became England manager. Had he said that after England had been knocked out of a tournament on penalties, he would have been pilloried by all and sundry and rightly since he was echoing all England's failures down the years to progress in a penalty shootout.
Ironically, the only Spurs player to practise penalty-taking (and that on an individual basis) did not even keep the ball on target, but the player in question is David Bentley, whose confidence has been obliterated. He needs to leave Tottenham in the summer to rebuild his career at another medium-size club.
As for the victors, had Man Utd, not bolloxed up the European Supercup they could have been on for an amazing septuple of silverware in a season, but a quintuple would still put all that previous Chelsea talk of a quadruple in the shade.
Meanwhile, times must be tough at Blackburn Rovers, if they can't even spell the name of one of their star strikers. At the league game before yesterday's match, I noticed on Match of the Day 2, that Blackburn had mispelt their Paraguayan forward on his shirt as Satna Cruz. Newcastle United misspelt Lovenkrands in his first match for the Toon, but the Danish midfielder knew what he was joining. No wonder, Roque wants away from Ewood.