Time to End the Heartache of Penalty Shoot-outs?

Schweinsteiger reacts after missing his penalty in the Champions League final. (Taken from The Guardian)The Champions League Final of 2012 will be remembered for a number of things, such as Didier Drogba's remarkable headed goal and Arjen Robben's penalty miss, but above all the drama of the penalty shootout at the end of yet another drawn major final will live longest in the memory.Such conclusions are exciting and nail-biting, but isn’t it time the football world came up with a better way to decide the winners of such a prestigious competition?Replays are out of the question of course, because of the sheer logistics of staging another game in the days following the first one. There have been many suggestions in the past concerning ways to finish games with a definite winner, and I’d like...