Weird/Controversial Football Matches
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Topic: Weird/Controversial Football Matches
Posted By: davereilly
Subject: Weird/Controversial Football Matches
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:05pm
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Didn’t see any thread on this, so I thought I would get the ball running with this one: 1994 Caribbean Cup Qualification: Barbados vs. Grenada Background: Barbados and Grenada faced off in the final match in Group A in the qualifications for the 1994 Caribbean Cup. This was the table before kick-off: Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Grenada 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 3 2 Puerto Rico 2 1 0 1 1 2 −1 3 3 Barbados 1 0 0 1 0 1 −1 0 Barbados knew that they needed to win by at least two goals to qualify for the tournament, whereas Grenada knew that winning, or losing by less than one goal was enough. The organisers of this tournament had two strange rules which are important to know: 1. Every match must have a winner (i.e. no draw) 2. Extra time has the golden goal rule, a golden goal scored will count as two goals. The game: Barbados controlled the game and managed to lead 2.0. However, in the 83rd minute Grenada were able to pull one goal back. Knowing that they needed to win by two, and scoring their vital goal would be difficult, Barbados remembered the strange quirk in the tournament rule where the Golden Goal counted as two, and determined that they had a better chance of winning if the game went to extra time, rather than pushing for another goal in the remaining seven or so minutes. In other words, Barbados realised it was in their interest to score into either goal. Following the kick-off to restart the game, Barbados kicked the ball back to their goalkeeper, who played a short pass to one of their defenders. The two players continued to pass the ball to each other, until the 87th minute where the Barbados defender kicked the ball into his own net. A baffled Grenada soon realised what was going on, and figured out that similar to Barbados just a few minutes ago, now they needed to score in either goal, since losing by one goal was enough for them. This led to the strangest football display where Grenada were trying to score into either goal, and Barbados were defending both goals. The game finished 2-2, and went into extra time, where Barbados scored the Golden Goal and won the game 4-2, qualifying for the 1994 Caribbean Cup at the expense of Grenada. Consequences: Barbados were not sanctioned by FIFA, since it was determined they were playing optionally under the circumstances. However, following the conclusion of the 1994 Caribbean Cup the rule that a Golden Goal was counted as two goals was scrapped. |
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Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:08pm
Why was their 3 teams playing   ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
davereilly wrote:Posted By: davereilly
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:09pm
Group of three
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Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:10pm
You refer to Barbados, Bahamas and Greneda in your post ------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: davereilly
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:12pm
| Damn it, I always mix them up. Edited **facepalm** |
Posted By: Denis Irwin
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:13pm
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------------- Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one". Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
Posted By: ChesterCopperpot
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:15pm
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remember seeing a video of this for the first time, thought it was the most bizarre thing I'd seen in football https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5jVMSlpZhg" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5jVMSlpZhg
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Posted By: davereilly
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:24pm
Jesus Christ! A video from FIFA about that game came up in my suggestions. Days before yellow and red cards...
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Posted By: Claret Murph
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 6:51pm
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Now i know this is a half story as it was played in Africa where the top two side were away for the last game of the season but on the same points and only a couple of goal diff between them ,one won 0-37 and the other game ended 0-36 . ------------- Lansdowne Road debut aged 52 and 201 days . |
Posted By: ErsatzThistle
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 7:19pm
It was in Scotland, not Africa. On September 12th 1885 Arbroath beat Bon Accord* 36-0 whilst on the same day eighteen miles up the road, Dundee Harp beat Aberdeen Rovers 35-0 These were Scottish Cup matches, not league games. *There is a long standing myth that Bon Accord were a cricket team who were accidentally invited to participate but recent research suggests that this is not true. |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2020 at 9:26pm
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Linfield v Donegal Celtic in 1990 was pretty controversial I was at it as a 7 year old, which was quite scary
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Posted By: davereilly
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 1:09pm
I don't know this game. Can you tell us the story?
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Posted By: McG
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 1:15pm
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They spoke of this game on Quickly Kevin - Mad stuff
------------- YBIG Table Quiz winner 2016 & 2017 AS YOU WERE McGx |
Posted By: Roberto Baggio
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 1:18pm
Linfield fan ran on and kicked a DC player Riot broke out on the spion kop with the RUC firing plastic bullets at DC fans
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Posted By: davereilly
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2020 at 1:43pm
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West Germany vs. Austria - 1982 FIFA World Cup – Group 2
Round 3 (The Disgrace of Gijon) Note: I will probably use the terms West Germany/Germany and
West Germans/Germans interchangeably here. Background: West Germany went into the World Cup as red-hot
favourites to win the tournament. So confident of victory, they only sent 19
players to the tournament, although each team were entitled to bring a squad of
22. In their first game they faced Algeria, playing in their first ever World
Cup tournament, and considered to be the minnows of the group. Algeria made history and won the game 2-1, the first time
that an African team had ever beaten a European team in the World Cup.
Newspapers considered this result to be the biggest shock in World Cup history
since North Korea beat Italy in 1966. Before going into their final match of the Group Stage, West
Germany knew that they needed to beat Austria to advance to the next stage of
the tournament. Failing to win would result in Austria and Algeria qualifying,
and a German win by more than two goals would result in them joining Algeria in
the next stage, at the expense of the Austrians. Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts 1 Austria 2 2 0 0 3 0 3 4 2 Algeria 3 2 0 1 5 5 0 4 3 West Germany 2 1 0 1 5 3 2 2 4 Chile 3 0 0 3 3 8 −5 0 Match: Austria vs. West Germany was a repeat of the 1978
World Cup Second Round Final Match, where Austria scored in the last minute to
win the game 3-2 and eliminate West Germany from the tournament, the first time
in 47 years that they had beaten their neighbours, and fans were hoping for
another classic match. The game quickly delivered and Horst Hrubesch kicked the
ball into the Austrian net in the 11th minute. Very quickly
afterwards Germany almost scored a second goal, but the close range shot was
saved by Austrian keeper Friedrich Koncilia. After that however, the viewers
were treated to anything other than a classic. For the remainder of the first half both teams displayed an exhibition
in passing, as like in that episode of The Simpsons. At half time, a German and
Austrian player left the field arm in arm. Algerian fans in attendance started waving money at the
field, suggesting that some sort of collusion was going on. The second half of
the game was similar to the first half, there were only three shots in the
entire half, none of which were close to being on target. West Germany and
Austria managed pass completion rated of 98% and 99% respectively, most of
which happened in their own halves. German and Austrian spectators started to turn on their
teams, chanting slogans such as “Get out”, “Algeria, Algeria” and “Let them
kiss” to their teams. The Austrian TV commentator urged those watching the game
from home to change the channel, and as a protest, refused to even commentate
for the remainder of the game. The game finished 1-0 meaning that West Germany and Austria
both qualified for the next round, at the expense of Algeria. Aftermath: The Algerian FA immediately sent a complaint to
FIFA, claiming collusion had taken place between the German and Austrian teams.
FIFA carried out an investigation that took 3.5 hours in its entirety, before
deciding that no evidence of collusion could be found. In an entire coincidence
the then Vice President of FIFA, Hermann Neuberger, was also the president of
the DFB (German Football Association). German coaches wrote to the Algerian football team
apologising for the match, this was not considered any evidence of collusion. In an attempt to try and avoid the possibility of any
similar scenarios, where both teams playing knew exactly what results would
result in them qualifying for the next round of the tournament, FIFA changed
the rules so that in the final round of the group stages in the World Cup, all teams
in the same group will play their final matches at the same time. Austria were dumped out of the tournament in the second
group stage, whereas West Germany made it to the final where they were beaten
3-1 by Italy. |
Posted By: davereilly
Date Posted: 15 Oct 2020 at 7:46pm
| Another one I just learned about. A football game that started a war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12vb_Crf00" rel="nofollow - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W12vb_Crf00 |