Little knew when Newport County’s goalkeeper Tom King scored a goal kick in a second division game in Cheltenham Town on Tuesday he was going to write his name in the Guinness World Record for the longest ever goal .
At 0-0 in the 12th minute, King put the ball in his six-yard box and threw it up so far that it ricocheted a few yards outside the opponent’s box before the wind picked it up and over the helpless Joshua Griffiths shot into Cheltenham’s goal.
Guinness World Records confirmed the record Thursday with his 96.01m goal, which broke the record of former Stoke City goalkeeper Asmir Begovic, whose clearance was of his own Box found the Southampton network in 2013. However, King refused to celebrate the goal out of respect for his counterpart in Cheltenham, despite the fact that it was the first goal he had ever scored as a professional.
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