Just when you think you have seen everything that football offers, Ipswich Town will come together.
Ipswich in the middle of another defeat for morality, which closed their descent from the Premier League, with a little help their opponents Wolverhampton Wanderers, served the closest two minutes of the Premier League, which you will probably see this season.
Backpass, error, storage, free kick, melee on the goal line, storm and point block … None of it was technically proficient, but it was unforgettable. Are you not talking?
For the uninitiated, it was a law of a back project, introduced by football in 1992 in order to make the game less boring. Mainly it was a huge success and on Saturday it was definitely on Portman Road.
This rule is prevented by the goalkeeper in the ball manipulation if they were deliberately handed over to their teammate and were designed to stop the teams, as often in the 80, repeatedly handed over the ball back to their goalkeeper.
This made the goalkeeper to learn to play with his feet and usually comes into play only when the goalkeeper loses his concentration and raises the ball after he forgets where he comes from.
Alan Shearer scored for England when Georgia was punished in 1997, Cristiano Ronaldo did so for Manchester United against Aston Villa in 2009, and Bayern Munich even sealed the Bundesligy title in 2001 after Hamburg was punished.
But Saturday was very different, much more fun and quite comical – last but not least, because it caused a situation that neither team could prepare for.
In the 36th minute AS Ipswich 1-0 in advance in the game they had to win effectively to maintain a chance to avoid the descent, the International Republic of Irish International Dara O’Shea overturned the routine back to his goalkeeper and former colleague West Bromwich Albion, Alex Palmer,- They did not, on them who were not lost on many Wolmer fans.
In fact, it was so routine that Palmer forgot to make part of the first – ball control – before he turned to the second part – decided what to do with it.
Palmer literally took his eyes off the ball, let him flip over under his feet, followed by the famous chaos.
Goalkeeper Ipswich did the only thing he could do, and scratched back to his destination, diving and almost turned the ball away before he crossed the border for the most embarrassing his own goals.
It was a touch and go, but Palmer saved his own blush.
But with his hands, the referee Peter Banes forced the foul.
If Outfield used hands to get out of the ball from the line, it would mean a punishment and a red card for denial of the opportunity to the goal.
However, the law on the recovery is an exception to the goalkeeper, so Palmer has escaped with an indirect free kick by a few yards.
An indirect free kick means that two players have to touch the ball in front of the goal score – a player who first touch cannot shoot directly from a free kick. If a player who received an indirect free kick had a score with his first touch, a goal would be awarded the goal.
Players on the defending team must be at least 10 yards from where there is a free kick if they are not on their own goal line and between goals.
In the careful world of modern Premier League football, coaches are preparing teams for almost every eventuality, but it was hard to introduce.
So Ipswich resorted to each of his 11 players on the goal – like a scene from Braveheart.
As for the wolves, in the absence of any cleverly thoughtful short routine, they simply rolled it to their largest, strongest center back and asked him to throw it away as hard as he could.
Emmanuel Agbadou made sufficient contact, but a free kick was so close that Sam Morsy – born and raised in Wolverhampton, but now the club’s captain 170 miles away – had time for the bills of Ipswich’s defensive army and accused him of his shin.
Ball balloon up and away to safety to complete one of the most bizarre passage of the season.
So Ipswich got away with a comic mistake, but it wasn’t enough to save them because Wolves fought back in the second half to win 2-1 via Pablo Sarabia and Jorgen Strand Larsen.
IPSWICH fans will remember the next late game, which practically confirmed their return to the championship.
The rest of the football will remember it for two minutes of madness.
