Birmingham scores peculiar goal
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An English League Cup match featured a bizarre goal on Tuesday, when a Birmingham player was allowed to score unchallenged by the opposition.
The goal came in extra time of Birmingham’s second-round match at Yeovil to help resolve a fair play dispute.
Birmingham, the 2011 League Cup winners, had been leading 2-1 in the 90th minute before Byron Webster scored in stoppage time to take the match into extra-time.
It started when Birmingham goalkeeper Colin Doyle kicked the ball out of play following an injury to a teammate. By convention, Yeovil would have sent the throw-in back to the visitors.
Instead, with defender Dan Burn still down and referee Darren Sheldrake allowing play to continue, Yeovil defender Webster received the ball from the throw-in and kicked it into an empty net.
Birmingham was incensed at Webster’s decision not to give the ball back and the match entered extra time locked at 2-2.
Compounding Birmingham’s fury, Luke Ayling put Yeovil in front 14 minutes into extra time.
But straight from the restart, the Yeovil home fans were stunned when their team allowed Lee Novak to run the ball into the net completely unchallenged to knot the match at 3-3.
Second-tier Birmingham secured what it saw as a rightful victory by winning the penalty shootout 3-2.
Despite the narrow win, Birmingham manager Lee Clark was considering lodging a formal complaint about Yeovil’s conduct. “I think something has got to be done,” Clark said. “It’s always easy to give a goal back when you’re leading.”
Yeovil manager Gary Johnson conceded it was his fault.
“I apologized to Lee Clark ... because, on reflection, it was ungentlemanly,” Johnson said.
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