149-0 defeat.. "ANTANANARIVO (Reuters) - Newly-crowned Madagascan champions AS Adema thrashed their opponents 149-0 in a top national league match after the opposition deliberately scored one own goal after another in a protest over a refereeing decision." http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/021101/5/pyz6.html Ouch. Perhaps this post shouldn't be in 'The beautiful game' section
geeez i hope he was agreeable to that... i'd have hunted down and killed my team if they did that to me.
If a team is trying to score an own goal, does that count as an intentional pass to the keeper and therefore he can't even try to save the ball? Hmm....
Yeah, some of us are really big fans of AS Adema. I had the game on tape and was waiting until I got home to watch it!
"Radio Madagascar claimed the result represented a new world record score in a first class match." Just eclipsing the old record of a 142-0 thrashing...
I love this part of the story: "Adema's players reportedly stood around looking bemused, doing nothing to stop the opposition from self-destructing." On another note, I wonder what the over/under line was.
Not if Stade Olympique l'Emyrne's coach pulls the same stunt in the next game in which he has a problem with the ref's decision, especially if the ref's decision in question comes earlier in the game.
I wonder what the crowd's reaction to all this was, or if the Madagascar soccer federation will bring down the hammer in some way.
Does the other keeper still get his clean sheet bonus? I mean, I presume he literally was sleeping through the match.
he, he, he Now really, don't you hope they finish lower in the table due to goal differential. Imagine if they were relegated because of the result. How could the players have kept it up? I mean, after 50 or 60 goals wouldn't you want to just kick it around to relieve the boredom? And how much stoppage time was there? If I were the ref there'd be like 30 minutes of stoppage time (30 seconds per goal, right?)
HOW in the hell do you let in 149 goals? My AYSO team from 1980 could have played TODAY's Real Madrid and came out with a more respectable score line.
Thanks for putting the [R] in the title. All the Madagascarian fans who taped the game will appreciate it.
I wonder if they started trying to make creative ways of scoring on themselves, like 10 of them line up in a straight line, legs slight apart, and the 11th guy tries to slot the ball through all their legs and into the goal, or if they all just lined up and attempted bicycle kicks, or see if they could all head the ball before it went into the goal. If I were an AS Adema player I'd ask to join in, could you imagine that! I'd be the leading scorer of the league after just this one game. Even funnier if the goalkeeper for Adema thought of doing this.