On Penalties

'Score and few will remember; miss and no one will forget'

Talking to some of the game's most successful players and managers, the question the book seeks to address is simple: can England overcome their fear of the penalty?

The penalty shoot-out is the greatest set piece of sporting drama ever conceived.

Cruel, arbitrary, tortuous and unfair, it has also presented the England football team with a new and infinitely more punishing manner in which to lose. Three times in the past decade the na...