I have done penalty kicks before but if you haven't heard/read, then you should know that Jack Rice of Taunton Town FC (the Peacocks) converted the winner in a 12-11 (34 pen total) shootout when his side outscored Truro City in the "Almost Alliteration" derby down in the South-west peninsular. (Don't understand?).
Well its an old joke about "Timothy Taylor driving a ten ton Thames Trader from Teddington to somewhere else beginning with (let's say Taunton) delivering turquoise tinted toilet tissues"....la.la.la. Its lonely here on a Sunday afternoon......
On Wednesday just gone, Taunton Town FC won a Southern League Challenge Cup second round game involving 34 penalties and 34 minutes. That seemed quite quick considering the time it takes for a penalty to be set up and psychologically attended to......not bitter! The two teams were not separated (2-2) after 90 minutes. The joyous coach said that he was pleased to see established players and youngsters share the occasion in what he described as a "lesser competition" and congratulated Lloyd Irish who saved three pens.Good on them and good on him! They were FA Vase winners in 2000-1.
Truro City FC, the Tigers, was founded in 1889 and play in the Southern League Premier South (7th Tier) are the highest ranked club in Cornwall (it doesn't get much better than that).
In 2006-7 they won the FA Vase at Wembley (36,000+ watched) beating AFC Totton.....yes more T's.
I read that several players at Truro are on loan from clubs like Plymouth Argyle and Exeter City, where as Andreas Calleja-Stayne is dual registered with Mousehole AFC.
This equalled the record set in a Football League Trophy tie between Chelsea U23 and Oxford United in 2016.
More record holders are SK Batov v FC Frystak in a Czech Fifth Tier match in 2016. Batov winning 21-20.
KK Palace and Civics in the 2005 Namibian Cup ended 17-16 to the Palace.
Tunbridge Wells beat Littlehampton Town 16-15 (40 kicks) in an FA Cup Preliminary tie in August 2005. There had been two pens in normal time too. The match lasted 3 hours and 10 mins.....finishing at 10.55pm-yes, there were floodlights.
A 1st Round West Riding Premier Div League Cup match went to 34 kicks in December 2001 when Littletoen and Storthes Hall drew 1-1 aet. Shoot out was 17-17 when the match was abandoned due to bad light! Locals turned on car headlamps and what ever but to no avail.
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