Deflated- Beachball deflection wins soccer game
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Bill Jempty | Saturday, October 17, 2009 |
The fluke goal took all the air out of Liverpool. From AP-
Maybe a lifeguard should have run on the field and declared no goal.
A beach ball from the stands floated on the field in the opening minutes of Saturday’s Sunderland-Liverpool game in the Premier League. It might as well have been a set piece for Sunderland.
Sunderland’s Darren Bent took a shot that Liverpool goalkeeper Pepe Reina appeared to have covered. But Bent’s ball hit a large red beach ball, deflecting past Reina and into the net.
The goal, coming in the fifth minute at the Stadium of Light, stood. No referee – or lifeguard – waved it off.
The video can be found here. It can not be embedded.
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