Forget England-Argentina/germany/Portugal, listen to this one.  It
concerns a match played between Barbados and Grenada in cup 
competition.
  
Barbados needed to win the game by two clear goals in order to
progress  to the next round. Now the trouble was caused by a
daft rule in the competition which stated that in the event of a game
going to penalty kicks, the winner of the penalty kicks would be awarded a 2-0 victory.
  
With 5 minutes to go,Barbados were leading 2-1, and going out
of the tournament (because they needed to win by 2 clear goals).
  
Then, when they realized they were probably not going to score
against  Grenada's massed defense, they turned round, and
deliberately scored an own goal to level the scores and take the game into
penalties.
  
Grenada, themselves not being stupid, realized what was going
on,and then attempted to score an own goal themselves.
However, the Barbados players started defending their opponents
goal to prevent this.
  
In the last five minutes, spectators were treated to the
incredible sight of both team's defending their opponents goal against
attackers  desperately trying to score an own goal and
goalkeepers trying to throw the ball into their own net. 
The game went to penalties, which Barbados won and so were
awarded a 2-0 victory and progressed to the next round.

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