Posted on 13th November 2015
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
We’ve seen some dreadful misses, own-goals and goal-keeping blunders over the years in And finally… But Stephen MacKay’s penalty in the Scottish Highland Football League has to be up their as one of the worst ever. Shocking.
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock you’ll have noticed England crashed out of the World Cup, with Harry Kane spurning the chance to equalise from the spot. Queue internet sleuths discovering an old advert which might just explain what went wrong.
Tondela are dangerously close to dropping out of Portugal’s top tier and can do without their attackers failing to do the basics: like passing the ball into an empty net. Rafael Barbosa may live to regret this.
What is the worst penalty ever taken? It’s a question that is probably impossible to answer. This didn’t stop Chelsea’s Conor Gallagher though, who tried to solve it with a genuine contender for worst-ever with a woeful preseason panenka.
The Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) was contacted last night by the Sports Ground Safety Association (SGSA), who told us that the option for football clubs to offer licensed standing at all levels of the game in England and Wales has at last been passed into official Government policy.
