Fastest World Cup goal

[snopes]

Comment: In 1982, an England player called Bryan Robson scored after just 27
seconds in a World Cup Finals (preliminary round) game against France. I
clearly recall the British media (or at least part of it) reporting this
exciting occurence as "The Fastest Goal ever in a World Cup Finals".

This was a "fact" that I have always "known" - and no doubt so did many
other England fans.

So I was very surprised to recently discover that it is simply not true -
I was alerted to this by a rather humorous blog on The UK Guardian
newspaper's website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2...nyfootballteam

(see 5th paragraph, beginning "Early goals have been a feature in these
matches, too").

This is corroborated by a list of records on the FIFA website

http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fifa...r_new_2465.pdf

And yet it is apparent from a web search (Google - "bryan robson fastest
world cup goal") that many people have still got this wrong - including:

the BBC (see
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/worldcu...00/1647195.stm)

the UK newspapers the Indpendent, the Telegraph and the Mirror

[Smoke & Mirrors]

The OP links to a BBC article that was uploaded 3 months before Hakan Şükür broke Robson's record, so quite how the BBC "have still got this wrong" is a bit of a mystery!

[stalker]

Originally Posted by Smoke & Mirrors

The OP links to a BBC article that was uploaded 3 months before Hakan Şükür broke Robson's record, so quite how the BBC "have still got this wrong" is a bit of a mystery!

They're saying that it wasn't Robson's record even before Şükür's goal, though.

Lehner scored after 25 seconds in 1934 and Masek scored after 15 seconds in 1962. If the document is correct, Robson never had the record, so the BBC was incorrect anyway.

[Sebbenth]

My impression is that Robson got credit for the "fastest-ever goal" (I'm not British, and I heard it a lot, too) because it was videotaped and easily verifiable. Earlier goals were a little bit the things of legends.

If Qualifiers count, then back in '93 against England, San Marino scored after 7 seconds...England went on to win 7-1