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Shilton and penalties

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Your Dad's Ashamed Of You

Viv Anderson
I was at a local football club last night and part of the night was a football quiz. One question was 'how many penalties did Shilton save for Forest'?
Now I have a clear memory of a league cup game at Bury. We smashed them. I thought it was 6-0 but I've looked it up and it was 7. Ponte scored a hat-trick but the main thing about the night was that Peter Shilton saved his first ever penalty. When the answers came it was 0 and I can't find anything about it anywhere. Does anyone else remember this game and did he save any others? I'm starting to think my memory has made the whole thing up.
 
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Kjetil Osvold's Cat

Kjetil Osvold's Cat

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Your Dad's Ashamed Of You said:
I was at a local football club last night and part of the night was a football quiz. One question was 'how many penalties did Shilton save for Forest'?
Now I have a clear memory of a league cup game at Buty. We smashed them. I thought it was 6-0 but I've looked it up and it was 7. Ponte scored a hat-trick but the main thing about the night was that Peter Shilton saved his first ever penalty. When the answers came it was 0 and I can't find anything about it anywhere. Does anyone else remember this game and did he save any others? I'm starting to think my memory has made the whole thing up.
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There's one listed here in the League Cup at Tottenham. Wasn't it one that had to be re-taken and he re-saved it from Hoddle again or something?
http://archive.mehstg.com/penalties_missed.htm
(18.01.1982)
 
Tnewton_1988

Tnewton_1988

Jack Armstrong
Shilton is undoubtedly a legend, but his technique when it came to penalties is shocking! he use to dive when the player has hit the ball. No wonder England lost in 1990.
 
Statto

Statto

Free Kick Specialist
He sounds worse than flapper Darlow...
 
Eddie Yates

Eddie Yates

Steve Chettle
Best goalkeeper in the history of the game, it’s nit picking to slag his peno record at a time when goalies couldn’t move, come of their line or jump around like twats
 
Le Juif Rouge

Le Juif Rouge

Senior Mass Debater
big jay said:
Best goalkeeper in the history of the game, it’s nit picking to slag his peno record at a time when goalies couldn’t move, come of their line or jump around like twats
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Patriotism makes me say Shilton was the best keeper ever, but Banks is equally entitled to that honour.
 
Raymondo Ponte'

Raymondo Ponte'

It's all about mid-table...
Shiltz was hopeless at pens. Every single time you knew it was a goal. Plenty were saved in that day n age.

Still, he worra fukin legend for us.
 
FLC

FLC

First Team Squad
Your Dad's Ashamed Of You said:
I was at a local football club last night and part of the night was a football quiz. One question was 'how many penalties did Shilton save for Forest'?
Now I have a clear memory of a league cup game at Bury. We smashed them. I thought it was 6-0 but I've looked it up and it was 7. Ponte scored a hat-trick but the main thing about the night was that Peter Shilton saved his first ever penalty. When the answers came it was 0 and I can't find anything about it anywhere. Does anyone else remember this game and did he save any others? I'm starting to think my memory has made the whole thing up.
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I was there and I'm pretty certain he saved a penalty. It felt a bit like taking the piss because we were annihilating them.
 
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Raymondo Ponte'

Raymondo Ponte'

It's all about mid-table...
Your Dad's Ashamed Of You said:
Yes I know. But, remember when you scored a hat trick at Gigg Lane? Well did the other lot miss a penalty? It's driving me mad.
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Remember the game mate but not alot else unfortunately.

If he saved a pen it must have just hit him? because a yard either side it was a goal. He went wrong way 80% time.

I've never known such a keeper so well revered that was so inept at guessing and saving a penalty.
 
Rockabilly

Rockabilly

GAFF LAD. "Open your knees and feel the breeze"
Anyone one remember ITV's 'Penalty Prize competition' it used to appear in the 1970s on Brian Moore's On The Ball tv programme on a Saturday lunchtime.

The final was held at Wembley League Cup final Forest v Liverpool before kick off. Shilton was in goal for the competition (goal posts were set up on the half way line, at the side of the pitch in front of Forest fans) Shiltz never gotta a sniff of a save. Penalties that were missed were the ones that missed the target. :LOL:
 
Garry-Balding Red

Garry-Balding Red

Grenville Morris
Shilton's weakness was gambling and the debts he accrued through it.... and you're expecting him to pick between left or right and come out on top??

In open play he was formidable. He didn't have to decide where the ball was going, a lot of the time he already knew.
 
Kjetil Osvold's Cat

Kjetil Osvold's Cat

Kingsley Black
He wasn't the tallest for a goalie was he? Probably that didn't help. I remember playing with mates I used to think I was pretty good at just slotting penalties home even in small goals, but at University I tried taking some against a 6ft2 mate in a full-sized goal and he kept diving full length and saving them. I think he did actually wait until I was kicking it to move too, but once I'd changed to driving the ball into the top corner instead he wasn't getting there in time - but that seemed the only way I could get it past him!

In Italia 90 Shilton was old too, and really didn't move very quickly did he? I guess he wouldn't have made two peno saves from Hoddle at that age, like he had as a Forest player. And I'm sure he wouldn't have made the reaction saves like vs Coventry and Hamburg etc either! But yeah it seems he was never great at saving penalties then according to most comments. Probably moving along his line could have helped a bit, when he was at Forest, if it had been allowed, as he could then be on the move more like in open play, when the ball was kicked, but still go either way! Some players like Molby, and John Robertson too, seemed great at waiting for the goalie to move and slotting the ball home, so that approach can have it's disadvantages too against certain penalty takers. Maybe we should look at Crossley saving from Le Tissier and Lineker and see how long he waited (I'm not sure myself before checking). To be fair, I guess as far as penalties go, he was a better Forest keeper than Shilton then!
 
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