Jesus Christ that was weird.

I recently bought a World Cup football game by EA Sports, for my son.
And I've been playing the PC for the last hour and noticed a play online thingy.
So I thought, go on then why not.
After a lot of faffing about registering etc, I finally got through to a waiting area and was challenged to a game...I accepted and then completely bottled it before we even started playing.

I even came out in a cold sweat and logged out, leaving the poor guy wondering what the hell was going on.
WTF was all that about?