Quote Originally Posted by ozleeds View Post
says that in bold not? Isn't it what i said?
Kind of, but "leaving it like it was when I got here" is doing nothing, and abdicating responsibility in a situation that needed senior managerial input, and as there was (and is) no "program of penalty takers" (and let's face it assessing who would be better taking that particular penalty would be fairly easy!), it was entirely possible for Sam (or as WS says, Robbie (or perhaps Ayling as team captain)) to intervene and make it clear that someone other than Bamford was to take the penalty.

I agree with what WS said regarding Bamfords motivation, but the position the club is in makes it more important that the right decision on the penalty taker was made. It wasn't, obviously, and also as WS says, Bamford is in a worse place now than had he not taken it.