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My goalkeeping career was also frustrating, in one match practice the pe teacher tried to send me the wrong way and I saved it, to the cheers of the rest of the team, then the vindictive xxxx dropped me. Just as well, its the pits to be a goalkeeper in soccer.
You can put that down to Tubby Morton of Melchester Rovers fame (Roy Race's team). As you can guess by his name he was the fat bast**d of the team and so was in goal. So during my youth, we always stuck the fat guy in goal thinking it would be harder to get the ball past him. Thankless task that of goalie - amazing more aren't hurt.
I see Newcastle conceded a peno at the weekend. Didn't see it. What way did Shay go ?
The wrong way!
Harewood took the same run up as Connolly (refer to a few posts earlier) and put it to Shay's left. Shay took my advice and dived right. :) Still, I stand by my advice. It was an excellent penalty and even if Shay had guessed correctly Harewood would still have scored.
I didn't see it, as long as he keeps not saving them for Newcastle does that not increase his chances of saving another one for Ireland?
Do you want a fully rigorous mathematical analysis or just a hunch?
My hunch is that he'll continue to dive out of the way early.
Theoretically each penalty is an independent event. But you could argue that each previous penalty will teach him something that he can apply to the next. That's about as far as I can go. I always struggled with probability theory.