Golden Goal (1992 or 1994?)
Chris F. Waigl
chris at LASCRIBE.NET
Sun Jul 9 20:10:46 UTC 2006
On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 15:54 -0400, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> OED has 1994 for "golden goal," but Wiki seems to have 1992. The Times =20
> (London) is digitized, so maybe someone can check?
As the Golden Goal rule was introduced by FIFA in 1993, OED can
certainly be antedated.
I remember the controversy about what to call it in German, as one of
the obvious options, "(der) goldene(r) Schuß" already meant death via an
injected heroin overdose.
Chris Waigl
half-time of extra time.... god that's exciting...
reporting from the country where they play football with their feet
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