QUESTION:  When and where, in first class football history, did one team defend both goals while their opponents attempted to score into either net?

ANSWER: The following incident took place during a final group match between  Barbados and Grenada for the Shell Caribbean Cup in February 1994. The Barbados team had to win the match by at least two goals in order to face Trinidad and Tobago in the finals; anything less and Grenada advanced to the next round instead. The rules in effect at the time specified that if the score were tied at the end of regulation play, the match would  continue into sudden-death overtime, and the first team to score during the overtime period would be considered a two-goal winner.

Barbados were leading 2-0 well into the second half of play, when Grenada finally managed to score a goal in the 83rd minute to make the score 2-1. Barbados realized with three minutes to play that they were unlikely to score again in the time remaining and deliberately kicked the ball into their own goal to tie the match at 2-2 and force an overtime period. Grenada then attempted to score on their own goal to prevent the match from going into overtime, but Barbados had already started defending *Grenada's* goal to prevent them from succeeding!

The two teams then spent the remaining few minutes with Barbados defending *both* ends of the field as Grenada tried to put the ball into either goal, but time expired with the score still tied. Four minutes into overtime play, Barbados scored and advanced to the finals.