Goaaal... by a ball-boy

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Ball-boys can score too.
Maybe it was a boring match, so the boy wanted to add some action

 

What?!
Surely that clip must have been cleverly edited, because no referee would ever, ever - and I mean ever, like in ever-ever a gazillion times , judge that as a goal.

 

What about a woman referee? She judged that as a goal, and it happened in Brazil

 

Yeh, It's all real. The name of the referee is Silvia Regina. To make matters a little worse, it all happened at the very end of the second half, more precisely at 44 minutes into the second half, and the team that suffered the goal was leading 1 X 0.

 

Is she still alive?

 

That is funny.

Amusingly, I can find plenty of news articles saying that the ref and the linesmen were to face a suspension hearing but no articles saying whether or not they were actually suspended.

 

Earl: She is still alive, luckily for her those were two very small teams here in Brazil, if she did that in a game involving major teams, I would be very concerned for her welfare. I’ve heard that she and the linesman got each a month suspension, quite a small punishment for such an abysmal mistake.

 

I don't see how that could be considered a mistake. That is blatant stupidity. There is no precedence she could possibly fall back on for such a ruling. Did the goal stand? Did the team who was leading before her decision win the game?

 

The goal tied the game at 1-1 - which was the final score. Supposedly she did not realize that the ball had not gone into the goal on the initial shot - i.e. she missed seeing that the ball missed and the ball boy booted it into the net.