They did it on purpose, of course. I think their trainer told them to do that, so they passed it to a player that was near the net and they scored on themselves.
It's not even one of the harder ones in Angus. I mean fair enough if he had been given Brechin or Auchterhouse, but Arbroath is just pronounced the way it's spelled Arbr-oath.
Another 36-0 defeat is Ogre Gakuen and Zeus. Ogre Gakuen scored 36 against Zeus in Football Frontier Semifinals only to get defeated by Raimon in a score of 3-2 in the finals. From that day, it became the most unbreakable record in Japan's football.
If the shortest time between two goals is nearly a minute, it's impossible to score 149 goals because it will need 149 minute Let's say the match lasted 93 minute with overtime, the time between each goal is 37 second
Little-known fact is that Dundee Harp’s 35-0 win and Arbroath’s 36-0 win were both played on the same day in the first round of the Scottish Cup. The referee during the Harp game claimed to have counted 37 goals that day but it was agreed to reduce the count to 35 after speaking to the club secretaries, thus inadvertently missing out on a world record.
If I remember correctly the 149 - 0 game wasn't actually marked as 149 - 0 in the end but 3 - 0 as the league officials and both teams agreed that the protest is void and the game is a write off.
When I was in Class 2, we recreated Brazil vs Portugal in our school terrace, the score was 68-52, me netting 41 of 52. The pitch had the width of corridor hallway, and hitting the ball towards the goal two times consecutively was considered double goals. Truly a funny but nostalgic moment 😂
There seems to be one of the worst national football team in the world, where Micronesia had suffered 3 consecutive big defeats back in 2015. They conceded 30 against Tahiti, 38 against Fiji, and even 46 goals against Vanuatu, bringing up to whopping 114 goals! In the Vanuatu's game, Jean Kaltack had even scored 16 goals, which is 3 more than goals from Archie Thompson. But, as you might know, these are happened in Pacific Games, which was not an official FIFA games, and that Micronesia aren't one of the FIFA members. Also, I heard that the America Samoa football team was dramatized into a documentary film called Next Goal Wins. Disney had even turned it into Hollywood movie version, which due to be released in October.
