How can a player score three goals in a match without anyone else on the pitch touching the ball ?

jasconi | 22:55 Tue 16th Mar 2010 | Football

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So that's Beckham out of the World Cup

Name two players who had their name on the front and back of their shirts.

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delboy3

Penalty? Direct free kick? Corner?

mightyWBA

How about....
He scores an own goal.
From the kick off after kicking the ball an opponent steams in and fouls him.
He scores directly from the free kick.
The referee blows for half time immediately before the re-start.
Start of the 2nd half the same thing happens again from the kick off!

jasconi

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Nope
After the penalty the opposing centre forward kicks off - so that's not it

jasconi

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Good answer Brummie - got it in one !

mightyWBA

Thanks...But we aren't Brummies!
Boing Boing!

Panic Button

Oh yeah, this happens every Saturday

jasconi

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Every Saturday ! You wanna come down Sunday to Hackney Marshes.

mark01

Mighty - he doesnt need to be fouled from the kick-off. He can score directly from the kick off. He can therefore score 3 goals from 3 touches of the ball, in the scenario that you have described.

Davethedog

The player who kicks off cannot touch it again until another player has made contact

mark01

Hi Dave, you can score directly from the kick-off, it does not have to touch anyone else.

Davethedog

I was being a pedant BUT he kicks off is fouled, if he takes the free kick it technicaly illegal isn't it? The laws quite clear.

No that this will ever happen,

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