The hysterical nature of football can sometimes lead to hyperbolic statements about the levels of importance certain occasions can pertain. One phrase that gets bounded about far too often is 'a matter of life or death'. Obviously, this is never the case when it comes to such trivial things as football.
Except, that is, in the Narco dominated days of Colombia in 1994.
Andres Escobar was 27 years old and the captain of his country, when he was fatally shot six times in the car park of a Medellin nightclub. All supposedly because of an own goal he had conceded just 10 days earlier.