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Footie fans flock to clock 'Miss of the Century'

Ryman League open-goal howler delights YouTube crowd

By Lester Haines • Get more from this author

Posted in Bootnotes, 3rd December 2009 13:47 GMT

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Football fans worldwide have flocked to YouTube to catch what has been dubbed "The Miss of the Century" - a open-goal howler by Harrow Borough's Rocky Baptiste:

Mercifully for Baptiste, Harrow Borough beat their Ryman League rivals Waltham Abbey 5-3 in Saturday's match, but the poor bloke's epic fail has "now replaced Liverpool star Ronny Rosenthal's legendary miss against Aston Villa in 1992 as the worst in football history", as the Sun puts it:

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