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[–] Taniwha420@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

I've heard this story before, but never registered the date: December 25th, 1937. Having played in Boxing Day rugby matches, and considering holiday "sport" matches in general I'm going to make a couple reasonably informed guesses. 1) The goalie was drunk. Quite drunk. Everyone was drunk. 2) Everyone was still on the field ... drinking, the goalie just didn't realise they weren't playing any more because he couldn't see them.