VINE: We’re pretty sure we have just witnessed the greatest penalty of all time

This is innovation. At its damn finest.

We don’t know who this man is, we don’t even know if he plays football regularly but he has just gone and revolutionised the game as we know it. Plenty of penalty-takers have tried to capture our hearts down through the years. Many have put their balls on the line, dinked efforts down the middle, dummied the ‘keeper and the even better ones have made right mugs of themselves. But this surpasses them all. A clip posted today on Vine shows the cleverest piece of improvisation as this guy steps up and completely fools the ‘keeper. Using his football boot. And the red-faced goalie ends up catching the boot as the ball rolls into the net. What would happen if this took place in an actual game?