Paying the penalty: what happened to five other spot-kick villains?
Darius Vassell
The striker missed his penalty in England’s quarter-final shoot-out defeat by Portugal in the 2004 European Championship finals, his 22nd cap, and has yet to add to that number.
Miroslav Djukic
In the last minute of the last game of the 1993-94 Spanish league season, the Deportivo La Coruña defender missed the penalty that would have won his club’s first league title. Six years later, now a Valencia player, he greeted the news that Deportivo had broken their title drought by saying: “Now I have peace in my soul.”
Michael Gray
The left back’s failure from the spot in the play-offs final against Charlton Athletic in 1998 cost Sunderland a place in the top flight, but he bounced back to help his team to promotion the next season, during which he made all of his three England appearances.
Stuart Pearce
The defender took six years to get out of his system the shoot-out miss in England’s World Cup semi-final against West Germany in 1990. He roared with relief after converting his kick in the quarter-final shoot-out against Spain at the 1996 European Championship finals.
Chris Waddle
The England winger, below, also missed in England’s 1990 World Cup semi-final shoot-out. When he tried to exorcise his demons five years later in an FA Cup shoot-out between Sheffield Wednesday and Wolverhampton Wanderers, he missed again and vowed never to take another spot-kick.
- Bill Edgar






Comments