should they count?
2006-09-24 01:30:52 · 20 answers · asked by Vanessa L 2 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ Other - Football
yea. what's a game if nothing bad like that ever happens? what's a game if mistakes don't even matter? if we were never punished for mistakes, we'd be wild men doing crazy thigns and getting away with it. football is like life. mistakes are apart of life. who would we be if we were never punished for our mistakes? mistakes give us experience, they help us learn.
2006-09-24 07:07:20 · answer #1 · answered by sweetpanther08 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes they should count, if they didn't the defending team could kick the ball into their own net whenever they were under pressure. Also it would cause more arguments about what counts as an own goal, for example; a deflection, how much does it have to deflect to count as an own goal. And the main reason, when it happens to the team you're playing against its funny!
2006-09-24 01:55:11 · answer #2 · answered by Jack c 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
of course they should count otherwise whats the point of having a goalkeeper, footballers would just bang it in there own net all the time to get out of trouble, besides it,s funny and some of the best goals ever are own goals.
2006-09-27 06:35:07 · answer #3 · answered by tracy f 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ummm...... that is a good question. I think that they should count because the rule is when the ball goes into a goal you get a point. If you score in your own goal then it is like the other team scoring a goal it just that you scored it for them.
2006-09-24 03:04:57 · answer #4 · answered by Why Should You Know 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes thay do when some bad aiming player tries to pass then it passes the other player and the keeper fails to block the ball bam! its an own goal(but when i play street soccer own goals dont count)
2006-09-24 02:11:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
they do make the player who scored the own goal feel really bad but at the end of the day the basic rules of football are ball goes in the net . It may be unfair but the players will get over it eventually.
2006-09-24 02:08:44 · answer #6 · answered by nuba1_defenda_emma! 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
in today's football match, the own goal is counted.
2006-09-24 01:51:06 · answer #7 · answered by foongwk140804 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think they(we) should,any ball passing d white line should be counted as one goal,but REALLY i don't wanna b d one who kicked d ball.If I did,do me a favor & send me to Mars
2006-09-24 02:22:19 · answer #8 · answered by minijh: rossonera 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh yes as they reduce the number of times they pass back to the goal keeper / playing safe.
2006-09-24 01:34:07 · answer #9 · answered by Todd 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes of course,
they are usually the result of poor defending or idiocy or just bad luck. otherwise a defender could end play by scoring an own goal rather than facing the oncoming attack.
2006-09-24 02:03:19 · answer #10 · answered by ben_r_coupland 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Last I heard a goal is a goal (as long as no rules are broken), irrespective of who scores it.
2006-09-25 04:06:01 · answer #11 · answered by Iceberg 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋