This evenings bizarre refereeing decision reminded me of some other footballing weirdness in particular the away match against Sunderland when they scored 4 goals (three own goals) and we one 1-3.
There was also the east Asian betting syndicate and the failing floodlights.
The attempted writ serving on Ian Dowie.
Any more?
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Yes, in 2003.
3 own goals
I remember we scored against Wrexham when the ball just went wide. Wrexham refused to kick off for about 5 minutes and eventually hoofed it as far out of the ground as they could. The weirdest bit was seeing the ref signal the goal and the players belatedly celebrating "the goal".
There was some dispute about whether a shot from Robert Fleck had crossed the line or not, the players surrounded the referee who turned to move away and promptly ran into Mark Reid's fist (albeit accidentally) and knocked himself out. The replacement referee agreed with the Charlton players that the ball hadn't crossed the line but couldn't reverse the decision as he wasn't referee at the time when the decision was made.
He was among friends there!
"Moroccan centre-back Talal El Karkouri - on loan from Paris St Germain".
Didn't realise El Kak was playing for Sunderland that day.
There were only two own goals
"The rapid hat-trick of own goals, between the 24th minute and the 31st, hardly helped lighten the mood at a ground which began to empty of home fans well before the half-time whistle.
First, a half-hit shot from Mark Fish clipped Jody Craddock and Stephen Wright on the way to leaving goalkeeper Thomas Sorensen horribly wrong-footed. But the trio's despair was nothing compared with that of local boy Michael Proctor, who contrived to divert the ball into his own net twice in quick succession.
Three minutes after Charlton's opener, Chris Powell's low drive was blocked by Sorensen but rebounded off Proctor and in at the near post. Then the young midfielder turned his back on Claus Jensen's corner and inadvertently diverted the ball past his own goalkeeper."
Same thing in The Guardian:
Fish scored?
Any idea what the Club recorded as 1st goal scorer on our OS?
Have I mentionned this before? -;
Yes, Jimmy.
Yes, Jimmy.
;o)
Allegedly a fat bloke called John Brown?, came out of the Covered End and shoved Charlie Palmer in the back. 1993, won 2-1.
Oldham at home 1972, Peter Hunt.
86/87, one all. Wayne Biggins the goalscorer. The replacement ref chalked off a good Jim Melrose goal in the last few mins to deny us the 3 points.
there was a similar incident when we were at selhurst...
More importantly, what did the 'Dubious Goals Committee' say?
Incidentally haven't heard about that for donkey's years. Does anyone know if it still exists?
I was at that game too. Am pretty sure that the Ref disallowed the Melrose goal because he had blown for a foul a split second before - a foul on Melrose! Pretty certain that's what happened and we had a free kick on the edge of the box because I remember fuming about it all the way home - the fat c*** linesman/ref was so far behind play it was a complete joke!