I think that a lot of popular culture is to create an effective simulacrum of an inclusive model of a society that doesn't actually exist. I remember watching 'On The ball' as a kid and they had children doing a penalty shoot-out competition. I was good at taking penalties and had fantasies of winning and that would be my root to footy stardom (as millions of other school children must have thought) but I was never asked if I wanted to have a go.

Did anyone on this forum actually get invited to take part or applied?

Not me but I can remember the Sunderland lad who won it at Wembley. He never missed.

Ken Henderson was his name I think .

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Spot on, CnG. Scroll down to 1971 on the link.