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| In English football, the job of the '''Dubious Goals Panel''' is to determine the official scorers of goals in the ]. This usually involves goals scored from deflected shots, and requires the panel to judge whether or not to credit the player who takes the original shot or a teammate with a goal, or to debit an own goal to a defending player who contributes a significant deflection. | |||
| Their most high-profile ruling of the 2005-06 season was the first goal of ] 3-0 win over ] on 3rd December 2005. There was popular demand to credit much-maligned Liverpool striker ] with the goal (making it his first for the club since his summer transfer from ]), although the shot took a heavy deflection, looped in the air and was then dropped over the line by Wigan goalkeeper ]. | |||
| There are no clear-cut rules to guide adjudications and decisions are frequently controversial. One of the panel's stranger decisions marked an own goal against ] in ]'s visit to Highbury on 2nd October 2005 — even though it resulted from a minor deflection to a shot, from ]'s ], which was already goalbound. (A decision which became all the more curious in light of the Crouch judgement described above.) They also opted to take two goals away from ] of ], which were scored in January 2006 — though ], the Everton manager, has stated that in the club's records Osman will be credited with the goals (despite the obvious discrepancy that will leave between club and official records.) | |||
| Such inconsistencies have encouraged suggestions that the panel is heavily influenced by not-altogether-impartial tabloid journalists and other media pundits. | |||
| The panel does not settle disputes between two players on the same team who both claim to have scored a particular goal. | |||
| ==Selected decisions== | |||
| ===2005/2006=== | |||
| *] (o.g.) rather than ] in Arsenal's 1-0 win over Birmingham City on 2nd October 2005. | |||
| *] (o.g) replaces ] in Chelsea's 4-2 win over Blackburn Rovers on 29th October 2005. | |||
| *] scored first goal for Liverpool against Wigan Athletic on 3rd December 2005, as opposed to ] (o.g). | |||
| *] (o.g) replaces ] in Manchester United's 4 - 2 win over Fulham on 4th February 2006. | |||
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