Best penalty taker ever?

Just saw on sky an article about 'The perfect penalty kick'.

Who do you think is the best spot kick taker, Past or Present? For me Phil Neal was hard to beat.

It has to be Le Tissier 47 out of 48 penalties, that is an unbelieveable record.

Jan Molby. 100% record I do believe

Francesco Totti, prehaps?

Jan Molby. 100% record I do believe

I think you could be right, but how long did He take them for?

While at Liverpool, he scored a total of 62 goals, 42 of which were from penalties. During Mølby's time with Liverpool, he only failed to score three times from the penalty spot (penalties against Sheffield Wednesday & QPR in 1985–86 and Chelsea in 1989–90 were saved). His record as a penalty-taker in the top flight is thought to be second only to Matthew Le Tissier. He still holds the club record of the most penalties scored by a Liverpool player.

Doh. Not 100% sorry

I think you could be right, but how long did He take them for?

Jan Molby, could place them or power them and scored a hat-trick of penalties once against Coventry!

It has to be Le Tissier 47 out of 48 penalties, that is an unbelieveable record.

Looks like your spot on, no pun intented

Following taken from Wikipedia.org

While at Liverpool, he scored a total of 62 goals, 42 of which were from penalties. During Mølby's time with Liverpool, he only failed to score three times from the penalty spot (penalties against Sheffield Wednesday & QPR in 1985–86 and Chelsea in 1989–90 were saved). His record as a penalty-taker in the top flight is thought to be second only to Matthew Le Tissier. He still holds the club record of the most penalties scored by a Liverpool player.

Not a bad record at all.

Or remeMber John Robertson of Forest, virtually certain goal. Done us in lcf 78, foul about 3yards outside the box!!

While at Liverpool, he scored a total of 62 goals, 42 of which were from penalties. During Mølby's time with Liverpool, he only failed to score three times from the penalty spot (penalties against Sheffield Wednesday & QPR in 1985–86 and Chelsea in 1989–90 were saved). His record as a penalty-taker in the top flight is thought to be second only to Matthew Le Tissier. He still holds the club record of the most penalties scored by a Liverpool player.

Doh. Not 100% sorry

Good info though mate.

Jan Molby without a doubt.

He was so cool from the spot that whenever he did miss, I was gobsmacked because I was so confident that he'd slot it.

Phil Neal was very good also.

For me it has to be Bob Paisley's first signing...............th e ever reliable Phil Neal, he very rarely missed.

Some of the older more mature members of the forum might remember a guy called Ray Stewart.  He used to play for the hammers, and his technique was simple..........head down and blast it.  I just checked his record on wikipedia, 76 pens scored against 86 taken.  Not a bad record that.

Definitely Jan Molby! Although Phil Neal was great as well.

Danny Murphy scored every pen he took. Aldo only ever missed one pen out of 18 (still gutted about the one he missed).

And Hamman, Cisse, Smicer, Neal, Souness, Rush and A Kennedy of course. 

Some of the older more mature members of the forum might remember a guy called Ray Stewart.  He used to play for the hammers, and his technique was simple..........head down and blast it.  I just checked his record on wikipedia, 76 pens scored against 86 taken.  Not a bad record that.

Yeah, I remember him,right back wasnt he?, No2 ithink. He used to BLAST EM didnt he?

Started me thinking now.. Who would YOU hate to take  one against? A little bit off topic I know, but I couldnt see anywhere else to put it! Obviously Pepe Reina springs to mind, and Rudolph!!

Phil Neal was pretty good

Alonso & Gerrard for me.

Le Tissier in general, though not sure he took too many high-pressure ones. Maybe a few to save Soton from relegation, but no major-game ones.

For us, Molby, Neal and Aldo in that order. Murphy was great, too, though only took 8.

Gerrard getting much better. And Kuyt has scored a few massive penatlies for us.

I never seen good old Danny Murphy miss one yet

Got to be either Molby or Murphy in my view.

Zidane was as cool as F**k taking them. For us Molby has to have been the best. Thought Owen was a crap pen taker