Four Four Two · Sep 15, 2016
What next, Celtic? How 10 battered teams fared after heavy defeats
As Celtic aim to forget that their Camp Nou horror show ever happened, Greg Evans reels off some of the other sides who've suffered humbling humiliations. Heck, at least it wasn't 149-0...
1. Yugoslavia 9-0 Zaire (1974)
Often perceived as the darkest day in African football history, Zaire’s shambolic performance at the 1974 World Cup was personified by this thrashing from Yugoslavia. Heck, it even broke the scoreboard.
Their tournament hadn’t started particularly disastrously, with a 2-0 loss against Scotland in a hard-fought opener, but their inexperience on the world stage was exploited in their second match.