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Is that all? The flaming torches & pitchforks would be out on the streets of NSC Land. Or Burgess Hill, where he used to live.

Yeah. Basically, if the fans love you, and you screw up a penalty like that, they forgive you. If you're a mere ordinary player, it makes you a cocky, talentless tosser who deserves to be slaughtered for it :) <imagines Ashley Barnes gently chipping one down the middle into the keeper's hands>

No, but Knockaert is also an important player, whereas Kermorgant wasn't. And also attempted the sort of chipped-down-the-middle penalty you can only be 100% confident of getting away with if you're Andrea Pirlo.

Wrong occasion. Kermorgant attempted to chip the Cardiff goalkeeper in the semi-final shoot out in 2010, and failed miserably. Hence Leicester fans despise him.

The more I think about all this, the more I reckon it could be one of those quiet, understated but eventually key signings. A comparison that springs to mind is Yann Kermorgant. Spent his entire career being a bit part player, mostly at lower league clubs (in France), followed by a largely...