Goalkeeper’s last minute backwards header (Video)
Do you remember when Javier Hernandez scored that backwards header for Manchester United against Stoke City last season?
The Layman
Madrid’s inability to park the bus (Video)
Many years ago while at Chelsea, Jose Mourinho coined the term “to park the bus” and while this video isn’t strictly football-based, it is nicely ironic.
We need to talk about yesterday
If there is one thing you can rely on football fans to do, it is to provide heartening, life-affirming moments and then let themselves down dreadfully afterwards once the hope has been raised for a better tomorow.
One legged footballer scores sublime volley (Video)
There are some things in sport that just make you think how incredible humanity really is.
You don’t see this everyday on a football pitch (Video)
There are some things you never see on a professionals’ football pitch in Britain; humility being a prime example.
When is the right time to begin to worry?
When is the right time to begin to panic about the performances of your team?
Blindfolded ‘rabona’ penalty (Video)
Was I the only one who, when watching Soccer AM’s ‘Skillz School’ (was it a ‘Z’ rather than ‘S’. I really hope not for many reasons), thought “Well, yeah, that’s all well and good and impressive and all that, but what’s the real point eh? You can’t use those skills in a game and if you do, you’ll get a boot in the face ala Kerlon.”
Awful defending or great attacking? You decide (Video)
The distinction between what constitutes good attacking play and slack defending can often be quite tricky to gauge.