Posted on 20th February 2026
#ICYMI: Warnings from history
It appears that Rochdale forward Emmanuel Dieseruvwe is not a scholar of recent penalty-taking history. Penalty-related buffoonery has been off the charts in recent seasons and we thought we’d seen the worst of it as players return to thumping the ball cleanly into net sans stupid run-ups or attempting ill-fated panenkas. But Dieseruvwe’s contribution to the annals this week was truly baffling – it’s difficult to guess what the hell he was thinking.






