January 27, 1994 - Barbados 4-2 Grenada (after extra-time), Barbados National Stadium: Football doesn't get weirder than this.

Recently I was given feedback on my writing where I was told to tone down on the hyperbole in my pieces. And this is a fair criticism, my articles have been full of "he was the greatest dribbler in history" or "it was one of the best goals ever". And while I am working on moderating my frequent hyperbolic statements I am about to make a big exception for this piece.

On January 27, 1994, Barbados played Grenada in the qualifying rounds of the Shell Carribean Cup. It was an event that is without question the most bizarre game in football history.

Extreme football nerds may point to AS Adema 149-0 SO l'Emyrne as the weirdest game ever or perhaps even Thailand 3-2 Indonesia from 1998.

But where the above two scorelines are explained by deliberate own goals, (in SO l'Emyrne's case it was an act of protest, and for Indonesia they wanted to avoid playing Vietnam in the next round) the Barbodos v Grenada game in 94' requires your full attention to understand the total absurdity of it.

(Before you continue reading watch this clip from Mark and Lard's Football Nightmares that briefly explains the scenario. Then read on as the story is infinitely weirder than explained in the video.)

In 1989, CONCACAF decided to create a tournament exclusively for the nations of the Caribbean - The Shell Caribbean Cup. It was seen as a tournament free from the over-populous bad guys of Mexico and the US, who every two years mercilessly dominate these tiny island nations in the Gold Cup.

For the most part The Caribbean Cup has been a success. Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica generally win the tournament but minnows Martinique and Haiti tasted glory in 1993 and 2007 respectively.

But it is Group A of the qualifying rounds of the 94' edition that saw football's strangest moment. In a group of just three teams, (Puerto Rico being the third), Barbados were left with a simple premise going into their last game against Grenada - win by two or more goals to qualify for the main tournament. Grenada needed only a win or a one goal loss to proceed to the finals later that year in Trinidad. No draw you ask? Read on.

Before the tournament CONCACAF had decided to impose an experimental and thoroughly ridiculous rule on the initial qualifying rounds: Matches could not be drawn. If a game was level after 90 minutes, it would be decided by either a golden goal in extra-time, or by a penalty-shootout.

But in the instance of a golden goal, the scoring team is to be awarded an extra goal.

Put more simply - any golden goal would not just see that team win the game, but would also count as two goals.

Barbados took a 2-0 lead by half time before conceding to a deflected Grenada strike in the 83rd minute. A 2-1 win was not good enough for Barbados and despite laying siege to their opponent's goal for the next seven minutes they could not find a third. As the game entered stoppage time a Barbados defender named Sealy figured that if he were to score an own goal Barbados would have 30 extra minutes to try and find the golden goal that would count for the two goal margin they would then be in need of.

Sealy exchanges a series of passes with his goalkeeper Horace Stoute before smashing the ball past his perplexed keeper.

With the score at 2-2 and a probable extra time loss looming for the exhausted Grenadians, they quickly caught on to Barbados' plan. The Grenada players, realising that either a 3-2 win or a 3-2 loss would be good enough to see them qualify were faced with the ridiculous prospect of having to score a goal, at either end of the pitch.

This entirely unprecedented and altogether unique moment in football history saw no clear direction of play for either team, instead Grenada were attempting to score either an own goal or a genuine goal and Barbados being forced to defend both nets for the remaining minutes of stoppage time.

It is difficult to imagine the following farce that ensued until the end of normal time, and unfortunately it seems no footage exists of anything other than just the goals, but Barbados incredibly managed to defend both ends of the pitch and reach extra-time where after just four minutes they scored the golden goal they needed, which in turn counted as two goals, giving south Caribbean islanders a 4-2 victory, and the necessary two goal margin they needed to progress to the final tournament later that year.

Barbados would be knocked out of the Caribbean Cup after failing to win a game, but by then this one game had sealed the legacy of the Barbadian national football.

And if anyone can show me an incident in professional, amateur, or even casual down-the-park football where one team was forced to score an own goal and then defend both theirs and their opponent's goal I will genuinely buy you a drink.

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