Even worse: McDermott was playing with three fouls himself.
Rooney is penalised when he seemed to be fouled himself on the edge of the Athletic box.
Alongside skits that send up, variously, Ricky Gervais and guitar-strumming Christian youth workers, Horne's characters include Tim Goodall, a camp war reporter who fouls himself from fright on the front line.
But during his 60 seconds of Friday night playing time, he got to the foul line himself.
But in the final 10 seconds, Lin managed to drive to his right and draw the foul, putting himself in position for another memorable moment.
Apparently Gonzalez should have called the foul on himself, but didn't, and Blake didn't win another game after the incident.
Soccer's governing body, FIFA, had already rather unsportingly shot down the idea, while none other than David Beckham rushed to Henry's defense and some of the sport's attention was diverted by a match-fixing scandal in Europe, but plenty of people paused to ask, what if Henry had called the foul on himself when it happened?
O'Sullivan's afternoon display in which he made breaks of 56, 72, 68, 109, 95 and 70, was his most impressive of the Championship and he began the evening in eager fashion with a 55 break before sportingly declaring a foul on himself for a double hit.
At 8-2, Williams called a foul on himself to let the world number 35 in and he closed out the match.
He is gentleman enough to call fouls on himself: Steven Donziger, a law school classmate, has heard Mr. Obama mutter, "my bad," tossing the other team the ball.
