General @ Monday August 22, 2005 09:56 pm by WunderKraut
A Belgian women’s soccer team has suffered a 50-1 defeat because their goalkeeper opted to attend a music concert instead of turning up for duties.
KV Mechelen scored their first goal of 50 after only four seconds of the match against SK Berlaar.
“Our keeper went to [music festival] Pukkelpop. That’s why,” substitute goalkeeper Charlotte Jacobs told Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper.
“At half-time the score was 27-0. But after half-time we were able to recover.
“We had to stomach only 23 goals and we scored once ourselves, right at the end.
“They allowed us to score. That was sweet of them.”
Pukkelpop is an alternative music festival, offering more than 180 acts on five stages, along with theatre and cinema.
That sounds really bad, but there have been worse games.
My alma mater, Georgia Tech beat Cumberland 222-0 in a football game.
On October 7, 1916, Georgia Tech played Cumberland in Atlanta. Tech won 222 to 0, the worst walloping in the history of American college football.
For a play by play of this most momentous game, go here.
Too bad Tech can’t field a decent team that will play all 4 quarters these days.
Georgia Tech: We play a mean 3 quarters, and then roll over dead!
7 Responses to “It Is Still Better Than 222-0”
Sheesh, what a day for them.
I remember when I was a kid, our high school football team defeated an team in our region 72-0. It was pretty pathetic, and we couldn’t help but feeling sorry for the other team. The only people that were sitting on the Visitors’ side of the field were some hometown folks that wanted a better seat. You know it had to be a long ride home for the team.
I have usually been on the wrong side of such routs….
Heh. I found this article in a news agrigator – then saw it here. I’m putting it in the Carnival of Crazy, Mike. It’s pretty nuts.
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As I remember, the Tech coach had some sort of grudge that he took out on the other guys.
My first roller hockey team was the reason our league instituted a ten-goal rule, so I can relate. We lost 19-0, 14-1, 16-1… We had guys who couldn’t skate – they tried to walk and just wound up falling down. I saw 77 shots in one game. It wasn’t good times.
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