- Jun 4, 2004
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Who said that penalties were not meaningful?
It is however accepted by most people that it's more difficult to score from open play than it is to score from a penalty and most people would accept when comparing goal scoring ratios that it is reasonable to remove penalties from the mix.
If Berbs took the pens it's pretty likely that both he and Keane would have 5 league goals a piece and not the 8-2 that it currently is.
From open play, at the moment Bent needs less prem minutes than any of our other strikers to find the net.
As for your spacktard comment, if you are abusing or insulting people that are physically and or mentally disadvantaged then I'll let you decide what sort of person you are.
With penalties you still have to put the ball in the net. There's no guarantee that Bebratov would have. All we know is that Keane did (and Defoe didn't). Anything else is pure speculation. Any England fan will know a penalty is not a guaranteed goal.