{"id":2112,"date":"2004-02-18T20:04:29","date_gmt":"2004-02-19T00:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/02\/18\/the-problem-with-goal-differential\/"},"modified":"2004-02-18T20:04:29","modified_gmt":"2004-02-19T00:04:29","slug":"the-problem-with-goal-differential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/18\/the-problem-with-goal-differential\/","title":{"rendered":"The Problem With Goal Differential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2703'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"537\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/soccerpride.jpg\" width=\"192\" height=\"192\" align=\"left\">NEW<br \/>\n          DELHI: Two Indian soccer teams who scored a combined total of 116 goals<br \/>\n          in their final games of the season in a bid to win promotion have been<br \/>\n          suspended, along with the two teams who let them do it.<\/p>\n<p>        Playing separate matches on Monday, Curtorim Gym routed Sangolda Lightning<br \/>\n          61-1 &#8211; 60 of them in the second half &#8211; while rivals Wilfred Leisure<br \/>\n          won 55-1 against<br \/>\nDona Paula Sports Club after leading 6-0 at the break.<\/p>\n<p>The two teams were vying for promotion from the second division of the regional<br \/>\nleague in the soccer-mad southern state of Goa.<\/p>\n<p>They started their final matches level on points but Curtorim Gym&#8217;s goal difference<br \/>\nwas better than Wilfred Leisure&#8217;s by five. With team officials communicating<br \/>\neach goal netted by their rivals, a crazy second-half scoring spree <\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/504396.cms\">The<br \/>\n          Times of India<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: Two Indian soccer teams who scored a combined total of 116 goals in their final games of the season in a bid to win promotion have been suspended, along with the two teams who let them do it. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/02\/18\/the-problem-with-goal-differential\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}