Last Time We Had Back-to-Back Penalties

[daviebee]

8 hours ago, Catchart Circle said:

Going back as far as 1972 Willie Morgan missed twice from the spot. After this it was an unwritten rule that if you missed a penalty in a Scotland jersey you never took another.

Rioch, Hutchison, Bremner and Jardine all missed and got no second chance with someone else was designated as the taker.

McAllister missed twice V Malta and England. In between those fixtures Nevin scored from the spot V Estonia but, significantly, McAllister did not take part in that game.

In a vital World Cup qualifier in Belarus 12 months after Euro 96 there were no goals into the second half when we were awarded a penalty.

Gary Mac used his captains privelige  to take the kick, presumably to make him feel better after Wembley.

Although he scored I never thought of him the same after that as he was arguably gambling our qualification chances against his ego.

Had we been a couple of goals ahead I would have had no problem with him taking a pen but not at 0-0 and that stage of the game.

Of course the most important thing is he scored and we went to France and as Nevin did not play in Minsk there was perhaps no other obvious candidate.

We went through a real spate of missing them back in the early 70's. The joke then was when we got awarded a spot-kick OUR players would start protesting!