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PS: Looking for Democratic own-goals on campaign offices, David Shuster?
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One of our speakers, William Davies, wonders whether the UK government's commitment to measuring, and then making policy on, the nation's wellbeing is one of the biggest own-goals ever perpetrated by the administrative classes.
The wellbeing agenda isn't navel-gazing, it's innovation and survival | Pat Kane 2011
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With the scores at 1-1 Pollock produced not just any own-goal, but unquestionably one of the great own-goals of all-time to gift QPR the lead.
Has a player ever been idolised by a club he has never played for? | The Knowledge 2012
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What ensues is a series of own-goals so spectacular that they finally answer the question: “What would slapstick look like in prose form?”
Epic Wingnut Fail 2009
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In the first game against France he scored two own-goals and missed his side's only clearcut chance at the other end and in Bafana Bafana's final group game against Saudi Arabia he conceded two penalties.
World Cup special: part five – Who had the most error-strewn World Cup? 2010
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Will it be one of the top 11 own-goals in World Cup history?
Felipe Melo had a hand (head? foot?) in Brazil's loss to Netherlands 2010
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It still won't be easy, but it helps when the other side own-goals itself.
The McTimoney Letter Jack of Kent 2009
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She's been great for the Republicans, but only because she's managed to score a string of gobsmacking own-goals throughout the past year.
Did John McCain consider leaving the Republican Party in 2001? Ann Althouse 2008
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"I can't remember two own-goals in a game and I've been involved in hundreds of games," says Jack Huckel of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.
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Ideally, I could simply turn to the cross examination portion of the transcript, but Steve Fuller was scoring so many own-goals with his testimony that our lawyers let him off the hook without much of a fight.
Egnorance: The Egotistical Combination of Ignorance and Arrogance - The Panda's Thumb 2007
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