Your under virtually no pressure in the middle of the pitch. The ball arrives to your feet. What’s the last thing you should do? That’s right! Wallop it towards your own goalkeeper with about as much finesse as a Johnny Vegas come-on.
Well that’s exactly what Christoph Kramer did this evening to give Borussia Dortmund the 1-0 win.
Most magnificent OG ever? Perhaps. The strangest? No way. Let’s not forget that we once saw a Brazilian player fire past his own keeper with a little help from his arse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEMVR7JiAEQ
And who can forget this beauty from Jamie Pollock that we’ll call the Reissit El ( that’s the reverse of Le Tissier).
Then comes this gift from god. Chris Brass, take a bow.
Any discussion on the fine art of own goal scoring would be unfairly incomplete without mentioning the clinical Richard Dunne who has reached double figures in finishing in the wrong direction.
While I could never forgive myself for taking anything away from these wonderful own goals, all of their scorers owe their legacy to the man who started it all – Mr Ronnie Whelan,
