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England Fans Go Nuts for Paper Airplane Goal During World Cup Qualifier

Something happened after stoppage time, but who really cares?
Screenshot via Andy Houston

Ah, England. Inventors of the beautiful game [eyes roll out of head]. A roster of players with a nose for goal [eyes continue rolling past Robert Green's outstretched hands]. You know the names. Best. Beckham. Rooney. Kane. And, uh, a paper airplane? During an absolutely dreadful performance against freaking 55th-ranked Slovenia, a substitution from the stands ruined Slovenia's clean sheet and the Wembley crowd lost its shit.

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England did eke out a sloppy little (real) goal at the last second—four minutes into stoppage time—to send them to the World Cup, all thanks to "wonder" "boy" Harry Kane. So, now I guess they're going to "win the World Cup for the next century" or whatever.

But the real excitement was the only goal netted in regulation time: the little paper airplane that could.

Seems like Harry Kane wasn't the only bleached-white, pointy-nosed, cardboard-like personality to score on the day.