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This anecdote about an unusual end to a soccer game in cup competition references an incident that took place during a final group match between Barbados and Grenada for the 1994 Shell Caribbean Cup: Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2000] The Barbados team had to win the match by at least two goals in order to face Trinidad and Tobago in the finals; anything less and their opponent in that match, Grenada, would advance to the next round instead. The rules in effect at the time specified that if the score were tied at the end of regulation play, the match would continue into a sudden death overtime, and the first team to score during the overtime period would be considered a two-goal winner. As detailed above, Barbados was leading 2-0 well into the second half of play when a goal credited to Grenada late in the game narrowed the score to 2-1. Barbados realized with three minutes to play that they were unlikely to score again in the time remaining and deliberately kicked the ball into their own goal to tie the match at 2-2 and force an overtime period, a stratagem that touched off a bizarre finish to the game which had Grenada desperately trying to untie the score by kicking the ball into either goal. As described by Simon Gardiner in his 2005 book, Sports Law: The following clip provides a video summary of the same story:
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