Why football would be better off without penalty shoot-outs
Here’s the take: Deciding football matches by penalty shoot-outs spoils football matches and the only solution is to get rid of them.
Here’s why…
The purpose of a penalty shoot-out is to provide a result to a game where neither side scored a winning goal during the allotted time. The argument being that teams could just play forever and not score. The problem is they’re fundamentally unsatisfactory and make the football beforehand a worse spectacle.
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