Can a team win 79-0? Police probe fantasy football scores.....Two soccer games -- 146 goals

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
    The ball hit the back of the net a combined 146 times on Monday as two amateur teams in Nigeria battled to reach the league.
  • Nigeria Football Federation refers "scandalous" results to police for investigation
  • Plateau United and Police Machine won 79-0 and 67-0 respectively
  • World governing body FIFA tells CNN it is monitoring Nigeria Football Federation's actions
(CNN) -- It's not every day that just two football matches produce a cricket score -- in this case an incredible 146 goals -- and Nigerian football authorities are so suspicious of the games in question that they have been referred to the police as a "criminal matter."
As both Plateau United Feeders and Police Machine FC battled to reach the fifth tier of the Nigerian football league on Monday, the amateur sides racked up 79-0 and 67-0 wins respectively.
At half-time, the teams had managed a relatively meager 13 goals between them -- only for the avalanche to begin as the teams tried to outdo one another on goal difference. Read More...
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