Or at least thats where you’d normally expect to see a beach ball

Sunderland’s Darren Bent scored his eighth goal of the season in a really bizarre fashion, his shot took a wicked deflection off a beach-ball thrown on to the pitch by a young Liverpool fan, and flew past a wrongfooted Pepe Reina in the Liverpool goal. Sunderland went on to win the game 1-0

The referee, 41-year-old Mike Jones from Cheshire, has come under heavy criticism from experts and former referees, who argue the goal should have been disallowed because of’outside interference’. FIFA rules state that ‘the referee should stop, suspend or abandon the match because of outside interference of any kind’, so the goal should not have been allowed and a drop-ball should have been awarded instead.

The game is not going to be replayed and Jones has been ‘demoted’ to the championship for this weekend.
Lets hope he’s not at Blackpool!

Cant ever remember seeing this happen before and not sure I’ll ever see it again…

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