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Darren Bent: Tottenham didn't practise penalties for Carling Cup final
While Manchester United's diligent planning for a possible penalty shoot-out extended to preparing iPod footage of the likely Tottenham participants, Darren Bent has disclosed that his Spurs team-mates did not consider it worth practising their spot kicks
Tottenham were duly dreadful in the shoot-out that decided Sunday's Carling Cup final, with Jamie O'Hara's effort saved and David Bentley firing wide, meaning Bent, who was due to take the fifth penalty, was not involved.
However, Bent's admission is particularly interesting given Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp's past association at Southampton with World Cup-winning rugby union coach Sir Clive Woodward.
During his time as Saints' technical support director, Woodward urged footballers to regularly practise penalty-taking in the belief that the smallest details could represent the difference between winning and losing.
That certainly appeared to be the case on Sunday, when Ben Foster looked at an iPod video of O'Hara taking a previous penalty just seconds before making what proved to be the pivotal save.
Redknapp's post-match attitude was that penalties are a "lottery" and his view was apparently shared in the Spurs dressing room.
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so, i dont understand how a manager can send out his team unprepared for a cup final that could be decided by a penalty shoot out. I just dont understand this way of thinking.
and just goes to show why we are also so pathetic at set pieces. I guess the management think they are lotteries too
practice makes perfect, we just dont practice, its as clear as day
While Manchester United's diligent planning for a possible penalty shoot-out extended to preparing iPod footage of the likely Tottenham participants, Darren Bent has disclosed that his Spurs team-mates did not consider it worth practising their spot kicks
Tottenham were duly dreadful in the shoot-out that decided Sunday's Carling Cup final, with Jamie O'Hara's effort saved and David Bentley firing wide, meaning Bent, who was due to take the fifth penalty, was not involved.
However, Bent's admission is particularly interesting given Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp's past association at Southampton with World Cup-winning rugby union coach Sir Clive Woodward.
During his time as Saints' technical support director, Woodward urged footballers to regularly practise penalty-taking in the belief that the smallest details could represent the difference between winning and losing.
That certainly appeared to be the case on Sunday, when Ben Foster looked at an iPod video of O'Hara taking a previous penalty just seconds before making what proved to be the pivotal save.
Redknapp's post-match attitude was that penalties are a "lottery" and his view was apparently shared in the Spurs dressing room.
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so, i dont understand how a manager can send out his team unprepared for a cup final that could be decided by a penalty shoot out. I just dont understand this way of thinking.
and just goes to show why we are also so pathetic at set pieces. I guess the management think they are lotteries too
practice makes perfect, we just dont practice, its as clear as day
