Storm Barney has battered the United Kingdom and booked one soccer player’s place in the hall of shame.
Kamarl Duncan, a defender for English lower-league club Thurrock FC, scored a wind-assisted own goal Wednesday in his team’s 1-1 draw with Romford.
A 70-mph wind gust carried Duncan’s attempted clearance backward toward his own goal, and the goalkeeper did his team no favors in preventing the infamous strike.
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Thurrock manager Mark Stimson described the goal as comical.
“At times it was a joke, and Romford’s goal was something you can only describe after seeing — it was laughable,” Stimson said, according to Sky Sports.
These things are liable to happen when teams decide to play through a storm, as we saw in Israel in 2012 and in Italy one year later.
Thumbnail photo via Twitter/@IndyFootball
