An inspection team in Zimbabwe has discovered that the goalposts at most of the country's football stadiums have incorrect dimensions.
With the new season starting next month, some grounds risk bans after officials unearthed some alarming errors.
At Maglas stadium in the town of Zvishavane, the crossbar at the southern end was found to be 10 centimetres too low.
The posts at that end had sunk further into the ground each rainy season.
All five stadiums visited so far by referees and officials from the Premier Soccer League (PSL) have been declared unfit for top-flight football.
The grounds all have wrong-sized goalposts, and some of them also require building renovations.
"We're trying to bring professionalism to football and we need to take some bold decisions," said PSL secretary Chris Sambo.
When the posts were measured at Barbourfields stadium in Bulawayo, one goal was found to be 10cm too wide and the other too big by a gaping 14cm.
In other words, if a goal is scored there with the ball going in off the post, it really shouldn't count at all.
"We measured the posts at Barbourfields towards the end of last year and decided to allow them to continue up to the end of the season," said Zimbabwe Soccer Referees Association chairman Gladmore Muzambi.
"But they must be adjusted before the start of this season."
"We're trying to bring professionalism to football and we need to take some bold decisions"
Stadiums in Harare will be checked this coming weekend, but there has already been one extremely disturbing error in the capital.
The crossbar at the National Sports Stadium, the venue of most of the national team's matches, was 10cm too low ever since the stadium's construction in the early 1980s.
The error was discovered after a World Cup qualifier last June, when the visiting Algerians queried the dimensions, and has now been corrected.
"The distance was wrongly measured from the outside of the bar to the ground, rather than the inside," explained Muzambi.
If the bar had been the correct height, some international matches would certainly have had different results.
According to Fifa regulations, goalposts should be 7.32 metres wide and 2.44 metres high.
When the league gets underway next month, the goalposts will quite literally have been shifted in Zimbabwean football.