Materazzi Tests the Unwritten Rule, and Fails

There’s a sort of unwritten rule in football… that the guy who wins the penalty should never, ever take it. I personally think it’s bullshit. Your penalty taker takes the penalties. And if he wins it, then he takes it.

However, Marco Materazzi is not Inter’s penalty taker. At 2-2 with about ten minutes to go against Siena, Matrix was grappled down in the box. A win would make Inter Serie A champions. But with Zlatan Ibrahimovic still injured there was a power vacuum on Internazionale spot kick duties, and Matrix wanted to score the title-winning goal. Except he failed. And so the Serie A title race goes into the final week, with Roma just one point behind Inter.

Maybe the unwritten rule should just be “Marco Materazzi should never take penalties.”

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Category: Serie A