Posted on 19th December 2013
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Every kid who loves a kickabout has played the crossbar challenge and it’s not as easy as it looks. North of the border this fella takes things a step further with an “extreme” crossbar challenge at Celtic Park.
Seeing a penalty ballooned into the stands is a simple pleasure and the subject of this week’s And finally… Bristol Rovers forward Jonson Clarke-Harris provides the laughs with what he described as “one really bad penalty”. He scored the other, mind.
The World Cup’s well underway, and there’s been goals and incidents galore. From VAR penalties to long-range screamers we’ve had the lot, but we fear for Milad Mohammadi that this particular clip may live longer in the memory than any act of brilliance at this summer’s tournament. Shades of Zaire 1974 levels of farce as the Iranian attempts a throw-in…
Here it is again, in all its glory. One of the highlights of the 2018 World Cup, Michy Batshuayi belting the ball off the post into his own face. He was a good sport about it afterwards mind.
Last time England took on Sweden, in 2012, Zlatan Ibrahimović scored a truly remarkable goal. Thankfully this time round there’ll be no Ibrahimović and (hopefully) no buffoonery from England’s keeper…
