The participant who scored a tremendous purpose within the 97th minute is retiring to share the video at a pub.

A goalkeeper declared his ‘retirement’ following a formidable purpose to tie the sport for his group – exactly eight minutes into the additional time.

Newhaven had been trailing 1-0 at house of their Southern Combination League conflict in opposition to Little Common having missed a hatful of probabilities. With defeat looming and going into the 98th minute, the Dockers received a nook with goalkeeper Jake Buss going ahead for the set-piece to attempt to unsettle the guests’ defence.

After the nook was performed brief, the ball was whipped into the field, the place there was a goalmouth scramble. Little Common appeared set to clear the ball, just for Buss to dispossess a dawdling defender.

There nonetheless seemed to be little on for Buss, who was greater than 20 yards from purpose, however the stopper steadied himself earlier than thundering an excellent effort into the nook of the web, giving his reverse quantity no probability simply because the referee was about to blow for full-time.

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After footage of the screamer did the rounds on social media, Buss, 31, took to X (former often called Twitter) to repost a video of the strike and joke: “Like to announce my official retirement from soccer. You will now catch me each Saturday within the boozer displaying this video to anybody that can watch it.”

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One fan replied, declaring: “OMG has anybody seen that the ref has the whistle to his mouth prepared for full time, nice strike pal.”

Another toasted: “Class mate! Natural born finisher.” A 3rd added: “You completely deserve it too!”

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Meanwhile, talking after the match, Buss advised the membership’s junior reporter: “It’s an incredible feeling, I can’t bear in mind the final time [I scored] so I’ll take it.

“It appears like some extent gained due to the situation however we must always have received the sport with the quantity of probabilities we had. No disrespect to them, they did a job on us.”