>>>>Association Football: March 20, 1976 - Aston Villa vs. Leicester City, ended in a 2 - 2 tie.
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>>>>One man scored all 4 goals!
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>>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Own_goal
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>>>Think thats unusual ?
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>>>this from the same site
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>>>1994: In the preliminary round of the 1994 Caribbean Cup, Barbados deliberately scored an own goal in a successful attempt to advance to the final stage by forcing golden goal extra time against Grenada, as an unusual tournament rule awarded a two goal victory to a team that won in extra time. Needing a two goal victory to advance, Barbados found themselves up 2–1 with three minutes left in regulation time. After Grenada realised what had happened, they in turn tried to score against their own net while Barbados defended both goals for the final three minutes of the match.[8] Barbados won the game in extra time and advanced to the next round.
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>>Nah, that's just unsportsmanlike behaviour, far too common in footy and many other sports.
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>First thought was ACK, but on second they are only following the rules to stay in tournament to the letter - unsportsmanlike is fouling to get an advantage, claiming foul where none was and similar stuff.

In 2012 we had an situation in the Netherlands where a soccer team from Heerenveen needed to avoid a draw in the last game of the national competition to qualify for European Competition in the following year. So either a win or a lose would be enough, but not a draw. The opposite team needed to win themselves, so the Heerenveen team noticed during the game that they could not win easily. So when they conceded a goal, they made sure they would not end up with a draw. So instead of trying to score, they let the other team score another goal, thus avoiding the possibility of a 'lucky' draw-causing goal in the last minute of the game.

This situation could have been worse. If the result of a game in the previous round would have been different, Heerenveen actually only qualified directly if they lost the last game of the season.

Of course all feels wrong, that you need to lose to advance. So the union is looking to change the rules, or the order of games to be played, to avoid such a situation.