Materazzi Tests the Unwritten Rule, and Fails

By: Daryl | May 12th, 2008

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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• Dave |  May 12th, 2008 at 10:46 am

  
  
  

  I think it’s bullshit too. If you win the penalty and feel confident take it. I guess he wasn’t confident…lol

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• Not Zidane |  May 12th, 2008 at 11:32 am

  
  
  

  Nelson laugh: Ha Ha!

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• Thierry |  May 12th, 2008 at 5:43 pm

  
  
  

  Zizou !! Zizou !!

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• Marco P. |  May 12th, 2008 at 9:36 pm

  
  
  

  No power vacuum Daryl. Julio Cruz was the designated penalty taker, but Materazzi convinced him to let this one go. Needless to say, Cruz was super-pissed after the match, and let Matrix know what he thought of him.

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• Dave |  May 14th, 2008 at 10:03 am

  
  
  

  No comments on the fact that it was a bullshit call anyway….?

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