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How to take the perfect penalty

Geoff Riley

20th March 2017

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Game theory is explored in this short video from the FT on academic research into the strategies that might be optimum when taking a penalty kick! To fool the keeper, unpredictability is essential.

How to take the perfect penalty
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Geoff Riley

Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for nearly forty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD and Revision conferences in the UK and overseas.

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