A football team needed to win 18 goals to advance to the second tier of South Africa but ended up winning 59-1, including 41 goals from friendly fire, and no investigation was required to confirm that the match was rigged.
The "Mattias" team needed a miracle to advance to the second division, because it was ranked third in the table with a goal difference of 18 goals, and it has one match left, and it has to score 18 goals and not concede any goal or win by this large number of goals.
But the match against "Nasami Mighty Birds" got out of hand and ended 59-1, and "Nasami" scored 41 goals in his own net.
It was not surprising that the local federation of the game in the African country intervened to investigate the match and concluded that there was clear manipulation of the results of the matches.
Life Ban
The penalty for both teams was life bans.
And there was an intriguing side story.
It is that the other match, which was determining one of the parties to advance to the second division, also witnessed manipulation of the outcome of the match.
One of the teams scored 7 goals in its own net, with the result ending 33-1, and the two clubs were also suspended for life.