The secret to taking better penalties
Practise with an augmented-reality headset
ARE YOU reading, Gareth Southgate? As the England football manager prepares for this year’s European championship, a Swiss neuroscientist is offering some help with the England team’s Achilles heel: penalty shoot-outs. (As a player, Mr Southgate is perhaps best remembered for missing a decisive spot-kick in a shoot-out against Germany in 1996.)
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