Micah Richards apologises for his horrendous penalty against Olympiacos in pre-season friendly

Micah Richards’ horrible penalty miss against Olympiacos

Manchester City’s Micah Richards took to social media to apologise for his embarrassing penalty miss against Greek giants Olympiacos in a pre-season tournament friendly that saw the English club lose on penalties, after the match had ended in a 2-2 draw.

Although he did apologise on twitter for his miss, he couldn’t help but slip in the fact that he had been converting penalties on a regular basis in training, thus making all the fans wonder what happened that made him bludgeon his penalty like that.

Here’s a look at the penalty attempt:

Been taking pens all week In training and slotting but today!!!!!! Oh my oh my I apologise

— Micah Richards (@MicahRichards) August 2, 2014

The miss was so comedic that memes started doing the rounds on twitter, making fun of the penalty attempt, a few of which are shown here:

You can tell the time by a Micah Richards penalty... pic.twitter.com/cSz2MvmqlF

— Paddy Power (@paddypower) August 3, 2014

Making sense of Micah Richards' penalty miss: http://t.co/IpmaQVmSdo #babb pic.twitter.com/PFxdeGbP3k

— Telegraph Football (@TeleFootball) August 3, 2014