A Sporting Rage

Why oh why do a lot of football commentators say that a player has ‘missed’ a penalty when it was going between the posts and the keeper ‘saves’ the ball? It was on target and it was saved! If the player had skied it or slewed it anywhere outside the rectangle formed by the three bits of wood and the ground then that’s a missed penalty but when it’s on target and caught/parried by the keeper then it’s a saved penalty. Give the keeper credit where it is due and don’t down the penalty kicker by saying he missed … after all he’s probably feeling awful because the shot was saved!