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own goal
- goal scored accidentally for opponents: a goal scored by mistake for the opposing team, usually by being miskicked or mishit by, or deflected off, a defender
- action that backfires on doer: an action, especially one intended to damage somebody, that ends up harming its initiator
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  • CADiZ: own goal

    The own goal command generates the negation of the inspected goal. The negation is recorded as one of two sub-goals of that goal, the other being an unprovable empty sequent to ...

  • Own Goal -Times Online

    The place: Wembley Stadium. The occasion: England versus Croatia, Euro 2008 qualifying fixture. The verdict? It is certainly the darkest hour for English football since Graham ...

  • Own goal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    An own goal occurs in association football and other goal-scoring games when a player scores a goal that is registered against his or her own team.

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