On Thursday, Mount Pleasant Football Academy played away at Club Sando. First leg of the semi-final of the CONCACAF Caribbean club championship. One each.
RMC Sport writes that the visitors could have won. Their penalty taker used a run-up that was “completely lunar”. He “caught fire”, again according to RMC Sport.
I read this on Monday at the chip shop. Then I put my weekly down. Then I picked it up again.
In 1980, the run-up had no name. You stepped back three paces. Sometimes four, for the daring. You shot. The keeper dived, or not. Nobody made a video of it, because there was nothing to watch.
Today the run-up is a show. It has a beginning, a middle, an end. They discuss it in France the next day. I’m not criticising. I’m comparing.
Note that I’m not against progress. I tried a modern run-up at home, in the hallway. A stop on the third step. I hit the coat stand. I went back to the three paces. At seventy-one, you no longer catch fire, you look after yourself.
Marcel, silly question, but in 1980, who decided the number of steps?
Nobody. It was understood. Like Sunday at three o’clock.
There is one leg left. The score is 1-1. Well. It’s the times.
It’s true, we checked: RMC Sport.
