Football is a straightforward game, but the tension skyrockets when the spectre of a penalty shootout looms. In cup competitions like the FA Cup, Champions League, or the knockout stages of the World ...

The visiting team's captain traditionally gets to call "heads" or "tails" as the referee flips the coin. Before 2008, teams almost always elected to receive the ball after winning the coin toss ...

Yet there the two captains of these brilliant teams stood over referee Istvan Kovacs, waiting nervously to see the outcome of the first coin toss that determined the location of the penalty shootout.

Speaking about that, Carragher said: “One thing I couldn’t work out with the penalties was, obviously there was a coin toss with Virgil ... former Premier League referee Mark Clattenburg.

Commissioner Greg Sankey flipped a coin, and the result was South Carolina on top, meaning the Gamecocks get the No. 1 seed in the conference tournament. "I'm just curious, he said he'd been ...

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey performed the coin toss — with a custom-made coin that features the logos for both schools — during halftime of the LSU-Ole Miss game Sunday. The three tiebreaker ...