As Germany and Paraguay go to penalties to decide their World Cup match, it strikes me as very odd that commentators bang on about their history in penalty deciders.
How, for example, would the result of a shoot-out sixteen years ago give you any indication of how the current team, most of whom would, I imagine, have been in their teens at the time, are going to perform now? Or how is the fact that Germany have never lost a penalty shoot-out at the World Cup likely to give them the advantage?
[Edit: And has it happened, it didn’t.]
