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16 Nov, 2019 19:03

Lights out: Non-league goalkeeper spectacularly misses penalty, breaks floodlight (VIDEO)

Lights out: Non-league goalkeeper spectacularly misses penalty, breaks floodlight (VIDEO)

There's a reason why it is rare to see a goalkeeper venture out of his own penalty area and this is a lesson well and truly learned by fans of English non-league football team Nuneaton Borough after this amazing spot-kick blunder.

Football fans of a certain vintage will no doubt remember the goalscoring heroics of goalkeepers such as Jose Luis Chilavert and Peter Schmeichel but for every shot-stopper who found luck in front of the opposition goal there are a thousand who didn't. 

Here is one more to add to that list.

With the score deadlocked at 0-0 in Nuneaton's non-league fixture against Stratford Town on Saturday, goalkeeper Tony Breeden took it upon himself to answer the call after his side won a penalty.

However, instead of giving his team the foundation of a one-goal lead, the penalty was thundered over the crossbar and directly into a floodlight behind the goal, which came loose from the roof of the stand and appeared to hang by an electrical cable just above the heads of several fans.

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The miss didn't prove too costly as Nuneaton wound up winning the game 2-0 but one suspects that the next time Breeden puts his hand up to take a spot kick there might be a few objections from his teammates - and from whoever it was who had to fix the floodlight which now dangles above the terrace behind the goal. 

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