No, Daryle... I'm gonna be presumptive and call it that now. On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Daryle Lockhart <dar...@darylelockhart.com > wrote:
> > > This was hilarious. Folks will be talking about this for YEARS! > > Gets my vote for miss of the decade. The century is too early to call. > > > On Apr 27, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > > > Funny, looks like a young kid trying to learn to kick a ball. Even world > class athletes make silly mistakes... > > **************************** > > http://sports. > yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/The-latest-worst-miss-ever?urn=sow,236778 > > Shocking misses can happen to anyone at any time, but the latest footballer > to suffer international embarrassment by not scoring a goal he really, > really should have is Kansas City > Wizards<http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/teams/kan/>striker Kei Kamara. > > In Saturday's MLS match against the Los Angeles > Galaxy<http://sports.yahoo.com/mls/teams/los/>, > Kamara found himself right in front of an open net with the ball mere inches > from the goal. He was a little too eager to tap it in, though, and ended up > falling on his rear end as he stretched to kick the ball in for the easy > goal before knocking it in with his hand. He was quickly called for a > handball and the game went on to end in a 0-0 draw. > > After the match, Galaxy defender Gregg Berhalter still couldn't believe it: > > "It was one of the most unbelievable things I've seen in soccer. > > "It was unfortunate for Kamara but it was a handball and credit the > linesman for seeing it." > > Video of the miss has already spread far and wide. The Sun is calling it "a > contender for miss of the > century<http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/2946636/Is-this-the-miss-of-the-century.html>," > but there are quite a few in the mix for that crown. Back in January, we > featured another open net > shocker<http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/The-worst-miss-ever-of-this-week-?urn=sow,214282>from > a bit farther out, then there was the > now famous Rocky > Baptiste's<http://sports.yahoo.com/soccer/blog/sow_experts/post/Footballer-misses-impossible-to-miss-goal?urn=sow,205896>from > December, but I think this miss from Dinamo Zagreb's Ilija Sivonjic > last October might be even worse than Kamara's... > > > > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
