ESPN: Worst "own goal" ever (soccer board what?)

Not even close.

Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I was his teammate, then I would hate him haha

Was that turley throwing his helmet?

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That has to be close.

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It's not. The above actually happens semi-regularly (as own goals go).

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If I was his teammate, then I would hate him haha

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The one with his hands on his hips looked pretty pissed from behind.

That was some pretty third world looking shite.

As someone who had one own goal, I can say that made me feel way better about mine.

that first one has a good shot but the other two aren't as bad as the goalie throwing the ball into the net

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The above actually happens semi-regularly (as own goals go).

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I think you're full of shite.

You posted videos of 6 own goals. 5 of them went off of the players' heads. You don't have to be a know-it-all soccer fig to know that this is a much more common occurrence than the goalie throwing the ball into their own fricking goal.

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Playing or reffing soccer for 25 years. Never in my life have I seen this or heard anyone tell a story about it.

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Craig Gordon did it a few years ago. A Celtic trialist threw it backward from the top of the box about five years ago in a friendly. There's the famous story of Denis Connaghan a few decades ago that made Jock Stein burst out laughing. And those are just a few involving Celtic.


And keepers punching it into the net happens much more often than that. Ffs, Cammy Bell did it a couple months ago.


The ones I posted (other than the first) are better because they were either much more difficult or involved great skill (like the second one).

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You posted videos of 6 own goals. 5 of them went off of the players' heads. You don't have to be a know-it-all soccer fig to know that this is a much more common occurrence than the goalie throwing the ball into their own fricking goal.

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You can't tell the difference between headers?