By Brian Barwick A local survey tells me people like penalty shoot-outs. Make that very local. On Saturday evening, my wife Gerry was on her way out of the house when she passed the lounge door. Briefly in her eye-line the TV, and Brazil v Chile reaching its climax with the first penalty shoot-out of this World Cup. She stopped momentarily to ‘just watch the first penalty’, and was still there nine penalties later. And she wasn’t alone as over 12 million people saw Brazilian poster-boy Neymar score Brazil’s vital fifth penalty and Chilean fall-guy Jara strike a post and send his team-mates back to the hotel for their passports.
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Former Head of BBC Sport reflects on Brazil's penalty shoot out with Chile
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Over 12m people watched Neymar send Brazil through to quarter-finals
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Guy Mowbray and Martin Keown gave a measured commentary for BBC
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Kevin Keegan wrongly predicted David Batty would score in 1998
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James Rodriguez's name has been causing pronunciation problems
On the spot: @placeholder players celebrate after defeating Chile on penalties to progress to the quarter-finals