Manchester United made history in 2020 when they scored one of the most bizarre goals in Premier League history, clinching a win that signified the forces of VARmageddon and lockdown football coming together as one.
No, we haven’t just sold you the plot of a strange and overly dramatic, dystopian Hollywood blockbuster. This actually happened.
The hellish void of lockdown football seems to become more and more ridiculous the further we get away from it. The silence of no crowds, the outgrown haircuts and ever-changing safety regulations, teams looking and playing completely differently, and of course the whacky scorelines.
It was like the entire 2020-21 season existed merely as a vessel of the infamous Boxing Day 1963 football results. You know the ones.
But lockdown football has something that Boxing Day 1963 didn’t is Video Assistant Referee (VAR). Not just VAR, but VAR in its infancy in England.
Mix the two together and it’s probably why that 2020-21 season feels like such a fever dream looking back. Nothing will quite so surreal, though, as the 3-2 victory United escaped the AMEX Stadium with on September 26 2020, when Solly March’s equaliser in the fifth minute of injury time looked to have sealed a point for Graham Potter’s Brighton.
That should’ve been it. Points shared and a long drive home for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s side. Plenty to think about and plenty of revision to do about United DNA, or whatever sort of fumes they were running on under the Norwegian.
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It wasn’t it, though. Remember Fergie time? Yeah, multiply that by 100, give it a good old shake, throw it about a bit and inject it with a pandemic and you get what happened instead of Brighton snatching a 2-2 draw. We’ll call it Ole time, for the sake of it.
Brighton, likely aggrieved with the prospect of only taking a point from the game after striking the woodwork twice in the second half despite falling behind, suddenly found themselves walking away empty-handed despite March’s best efforts, in one of the strangest moments in Premier League history.
So what happened?
With five minutes of injury time on the clock, March had headed in an equaliser inside the final minute of that added time. United were allowed to play on amid the delay through celebrations, and went down the other end desperately in search of anything to salvage the game, but looked resigned to a…
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