- [Ryan] Are you familiar with the
concept of a golden goal in football
or soccer? - Yes.
Yeah, when you go to extra time,
first team to score, they win.
Everybody goes home, makes some beans.
Eat the beans.
- In England the custom is to go home
and make beans after a football match.
That's correct.
Traditionally that's true,
except it was not true in the 1994 Caribbean Cup.
They decided that a golden goal was going
to be worth not one, but two goals.
So you end the game, but then you also get two points,
rather than one point.
- Because why, yeah, we're playing Calvin ball, whatever.
Screw it.
You win, it's fine, none of it matters.
- That's the thing is like, you might as well
- 20 goals. - just make it 20.
The thing is that that would not normally be a problem,
except in football you're also dealing
with a table, and the table also has a
goal differential. - Goal differential
where that can actually.
- [Ryan] Where it can have some pretty serious
ramifications in terms of qualifiers.
- So that never came into play,
but it's just a very interesting thing for us to know.
- Not exactly.
In this particular match, it's Barbados vs. Grenada.
Grenada sits at the top of the table tied with Puerto Rico
and they have a three goal differential above Barbados.
So Barbados needs to beat Grenada by two goals
to move onto the finals.
In the 83rd minute, so roughly seven minutes to go,
they're up two to one, but that's not enough
to get them into the finals.
So they remember this golden goal thing
that we just discussed.
That it would get them two goals.
So they're thinking "Well we could score another goal
"and get it to three-one, but with seven minutes left
"that's looking a little dicey.
"It might just be easier.
- To play for the tie despite already having the lead.
- To play for the draw and take it into extra time.
- Barbados, you magnificent
bastard. - Sneaky.
Imagine the mental math you have to be doing
in that scenario to know, oh wait,
we could do this entire other strategy.
- [Will] Wait, was it a team thing?
Like they went from trying to score or was it like a rogue?
- I believe it was an organized thing because,
and there's footage of this,
what they just do for another minute or so
is just dribble the ball back and forth between the goalie
and one of the other team members,
and then eventually just kick it in and score the own goal.
So now they're thinking, okay,
there's roughly three minutes left to go,
we're tied, we're gonna take it into extra time.
- But Grenada, they caught on, right?
- The gears start turning for Grenada.
Now they're realizing what Barbados is up to.
If we take it into extra time, they could.
- [Will] They have a chance to knock us out.
- [Ryan] They have a chance to knock us out with one goal.
- [Will] Right.
- [Ryan] So what we need to do
is either beat them by one goal
or we could still lose by one goal,
which is not enough for them to advance to the finals.
- [Will] So Grenada hits a point where the ball
just has to go in either net.
- [Ryan] They have to go into either net.
Now you have one team that is trying to score in either net,
and one team that is simultaneously defending both nets.
To keep the result to take it into extra time.
- I like to picture the team would just split up
five on five, form a wall in front of both goals.
- It seems like the simplest thing,
just lock arms and just create like
two little horseshoes of people around each goal.
- It doesn't sound that far off from like Pee Wee Soccer.
Just a bunch of kids running around.
- It devolved very quickly.
- Please don't tell me Barbados wins.
- Barbados scores the golden goal and they win by two,
knocking out Grenada and moving on in the finals.
- Well you know what, okay, I take it back.
That's good.
Grenada does not deserve,
if they couldn't score an own goal, or a normal goal.
- Sure, but they shouldn't have to be expected
to score an own goal to move on
in the finals. - Theoretically,
if a team is defending both goals,
they are able to pick a side
and play 10 on five, plus the keeper.
- Yeah, how?
- Right?
- You're right.
They didn't win the tournament overall,
but that doesn't matter because we're not talking
about the champion of the 1994 Caribbean Cup,
we're talking about Barbados.
- [Will] So did the final score actually read.
- [Ryan] The final score
was four to two. - Four to two,
and if you look at the score summary there's three goals,
- [Ryan] That's right, yeah.
- two goals.
Who got bored and decided,
I wanna see a two point goal?
- I don't know why they made that rule
going into this tournament.
I don't know why it met zero resistance.
I don't know why no one said,
hey, that could potentially screw up goal differentials.
- It's like there's one dude who got so far
up in the ranks of FIFA and was like,
"Finally I can fix the one thing wrong with this sport."
Has this ever happened since?
- I don't believe that it has.
I'm pretty sure they got rid of it.
The Grenadian manager, to his credit, was pissed.
- Sure. - He said "I feel cheated.
"The person who came up with these
"rules must be a candidate for a madhouse.
"I have never seen this happen before in football.
"You are suppose to score against
"the opponents to win, not for them."
- Yeah, but that's coming from the guy who couldn't
coach his team to score on their own goal.
- Fool.