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Penalties are this far [------] away from deciding the game via a coin toss. Hate 'em.

Everything in sports is overdetermined. There are two outcomes, effects if you will. (Three if you count draws, but then we're always "Two points lost...") But there are heaps and bunches of possible causes. It's a mug's game to point to one or two of them, most of the time anyways, e.g. Spurs...

Granted, Fenway Park only holds 35,000 or so, so only half-a-Wembley, but there's a sellout Red Sox home game every year, on the same day as the Boston Marathon, about 300 yards from the finish line, and the game's start time is calculated to have fans out of the game for the finish of the marathon.