The best spot kick showboating ever seen

Knocking a dead ball into the goal from twelve yards should be the easiest thing in the world for a professional footballer, but as Jenas, Chimbonda, Yakubu and Jagielka learned last night, it’s tough under pressure. Maybe they should have tried to emulate one of these classic efforts:

Johan Cruijff gets some help

Francesco Totti backheels it

Gonzalo Pineda pulls off a cheeky chip

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He won’t take guff from a tubby megastar

It is perceived that many stars of the England team have big bank accounts, even bigger egos and little desire to help their nation succeed. Fabio wouldn’t take any of this nonsense, as he has dropped and fallen out with Totti, Del Piero and Edgar Davids. His greatest moment of belittling, however, came in front of the entire Real Madrid team, as a lazy Ronaldo left the showers:

“Aren’t you ashamed of being so fat?”

The porky Brazilian trotted off to Milan the following month.