April 2011
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“The lines marking a penalty area are a disgrace to the playing fields of a public school. It is a standing insult to sportsmen to have to play under a rule which assumes that players intend to trip, hack and push their opponents and to behave like cads of the most unscrupulous kidney.”
—Englishman CB Fry when in 1890 the Irishman William McCrum lobbies for the introduction of penalty kicks.
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