The Nigeria Football Federation was left red-eyed and livid with rage
after two matches in amateur league games produced what ordinarily
should have shattered the Guinness Book of World Records with 146 goals.
Plateau United Feeders produced a mind-boggling 79-0 victory over
Akurba FC while Police Machine FC demolished Babayaro FC 67-0.
All teams
were involved in promotion play-offs in which the winners would qualify
to play in Nigeria Nationwide League Division 3.
The matches were going on simultaneously and Plateau and Police Machine were in contention for promotion.
The two winners were apparently monitoring their scores and kept
recording the goals to outdo each other. The Nigeria Football
Federation, alarmed by the scandal, reacted swiftly by placing the four
teams on indefinte suspension and dismissed the results as laughable.
"It is unacceptable. This is a scandal of huge proportions. The four
teams involved are suspended immediately and indefinitely, pending
further sanctions. We will investigate this matter thoroughly and get to
the bottom of it," Chief Mike Umeh who is the first Vice President of
NFF said.
The highest number of goals scored in a single game by one team is
also the largest margin of defeat by any team and it was the Game
between Arbroath and Bon Accord in 1885 where the score was 36-0 .
The
goals glut if allowed by NFF, definitely, would have shot the teams into
the history books.
Group Sports Editor, Onochie Anibeze was alarmed yesterday and asked
repeatedly if the goals were scored with legs or hands. He said that
match fixing was a criminal offence and that those involved should be
investigated and prosecuted.
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