Magical moment! Own goals a mix of misery and entertainment

Anyone who has scored an own goal, no matter in what standard of football, knows it is not a pleasant experience.

It is the embarrassment more than anything — the humiliating feeling you have let the team down and probably made a fool of yourself in the process.

“Sick as a parrot” sums up the emotion nicely.

So spare a thought for New Zealand defender Meikayla Moore, 25, who scored a hat-trick of own goals in her national team’s 5-0 defeat at the hands of the USA in an international tournament on Monday.

She is no novice either — when she walked on to the pitch at the start she was marking her 48th cap as a Football Fern.

Little did she know what was in store.

Her first slip occurred in the fifth minute when she attempted to clear a cross but deflected it into her own net.

Within a minute she had scored the second with a header although she didn’t know too much…