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The soccer game where both teams wanted own goals

Barbados needed a two-goal win over Grenada in Caribbean Cup qualifying, so it scored on itself in the eighty-seventh minute; the rule was scrapped afterward.

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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFolks, the score is two-two, a team has just scored on its own net on purpose, and the crowd does not know whether to cheer or call a lawyer!

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOn purpose? That can't be real, Rex.

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBarbados led two-nil but needed to win by two goals.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThen Grenada scores in the eighty-third minute, and in the eighty-seventh Barbados scores on itself to make it two-two!

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorThat actually happened?

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe tournament rule said a golden goal in extra time wins the match and counts as two goals!

  7. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorSo Barbados just wants extra time, and one goal wins it!

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorWell, that's the kind of strategic thinking you'd need a PhD in chaos theory to pull off.

  9. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI respect the plan, but that's a lot of math for a soccer game.

  10. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorAnd now Grenada catches on!

  11. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorFor the last three minutes they try to score in either net, because losing by one still sends them through, and Barbados is defending both goals!

  12. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorBoth goals?

  13. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorBarbados scores the golden goal in extra time and wins four-two! January twenty-seventh, nineteen ninety-four, Caribbean Cup qualifying, per Wikipedia.

  14. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorThe organisers scrapped the rule after the tournament.

  15. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorSo the rule that made everyone play backwards is the only thing that lost.

  16. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorTwo goals in the wrong net, and the only team that lost was the rulebook!

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