Do you know of any funny own-goal moves in the history of sports?

Oo-longs happen from time to time, those bizarre events in the sports world in those years.

On the evening of February 1, 2020, in the 25th round of the Premier League, in the 58th minute, Sheffield United got a corner kick opportunity. After the ball was taken, Crystal Palace goalkeeper Guaita jumped up quickly. Then hold the ball firmly. However, a shocking and bizarre incident happened. Guaita was completely unaware that he was moving towards the goal during his fall. When he landed and stood firm, he actually held the ball and scored in his own goal! This is destined to become the most "incredible" goal in Guaita's career and a completely unexpected "black swan event" for Crystal Palace.

"Oolong" is a Cantonese word. In Cantonese-speaking areas, an incident where a mistake or misunderstanding leads to unnecessary losses is verbally expressed as "Oolong". In a football match, if one's team members accidentally score the ball into their own goal, they will be scolded as an "own goal" by the fans. Over the years, the sports world has had its own share of incidents, some of which are hilarious, while others are puzzling.

At the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympics, during the entrance ceremony of delegations from various countries, it was customary to circle the stadium and then be guided to the center of the venue. However, the Japanese delegation was directly guided out of the stadium by the usher, and then, Once you go out, you can never come back in. When delegations from all over the world were watching the chrysanthemum stage being lit, the entire Japanese delegation was on the sidelines. What’s interesting is that if this incident hadn’t been revealed on a netizen’s blog a week later, the Japanese delegation and the media would not have mentioned it. Netizens’ comments afterwards were even more hilarious: “When delegations all over the world were watching the torch being lit, At that time, the entire Japanese delegation was thinking about life on the sidelines."

In the 2013 "Northern Marathon" held in Sunderland, England, as many as 5,000 people signed up to participate. However, I don’t know whether it was an oversight by the organizers or something else, but the runners who were second and third in the queue chose the wrong way halfway through, causing the runners behind them to also run the wrong way. In the end, except for the runner who had been running in the first place, all the other contestants were disqualified because they ran 264 meters less.

What is even more shocking is that in the 2014 marathon held in Bangalore, India, due to a mistake by the pilot car, three of the leading runners ran the wrong way. According to the notification from the committee, the contestants had to give up the competition and even had to borrow money from the audience to buy tickets and take a bus to reach the finish line. The basketball game is 6:5, playing a new format unknown to people on earth. On the last day of 2008, in the NBA arena, under the watchful eyes of referees Krahan, Mote, Zaba, and all the staff, a rare 6-on-5 game was staged in the "top hall of world basketball", a pioneering away game. The player "black" defeated the defending champion Celtics. Even the Black Mamba Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant had a strange incident of scoring an own goal. In the same city derby match with the Clippers, Kobe was blocking a pass from the Clippers. The ball hit Kobe's arm and went into the goal. Basketball, the Clippers scored 2 points.

Also in the 2019 World Cup preliminaries, Zhang Linpeng, who played injured, scored an own goal, which directly led to the Chinese team's "away" defeat. The national team lost 1-2 to Syria.

Why do so many own-goal incidents occur in hormone-filled sports events? So far, there are not many credible explanations. However, the pigs' feet who are involved in the Oolong incident are also at a loss and can only sigh that it is impossible to prevent it.