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Festus Baise’s scorpion kick – football’s first viral own goal
The very first viral own goal was scored right here in Hong Kong – and it might still be the best ever.Before YouTube it was a time when videos of goals were handed over in playgrounds and pubs, the day of Goals Galore and The World’s Greatest Goals on VHS.Such was the clamour for goal videos in the late 1980s and early 1990s that there was deemed to be a gap in the market for goals scored at the other end and a slew of videos followed Danny Baker’s Own Goals and Gaffs in 1992.The world moved…