Posted on 27th April 2012
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
This week’s And Finally… comes from the land of Oz where Brisbane Roar grabbed a second successive A-League title thanks to an embarrassing 94th minute penalty awarded in their title decider against Perth Glory. To make matters worse Besart Berisha, who miskicked then fell over to ‘earn’ the pen, then goes into wild-eyed celebration mode to honour his ill-gotten gain. Shame on him.
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Football is back, and while we could’ve been worried about players taking a few games to get into their stride, David Luiz delivered from the off. Having been dropped to the bench and only entering the game due to an injury, he fluffed his clearance leading to Man City’s opener in first half stoppage time, before compounding his misery by giving away a penalty and getting sent off for an unwanted hat-trick just after the break.
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…
Headers don’t feature often on #ICYMI – but Gustavo Hamer’s lesser-spotted 25-yard headed goal for Coventry City at Vicarage Road was well worth paying tribute to. A terrific effort.
On Monday 25th June MPs will debate the issue of standing at football as Parliament considers an e-petition “relating to allowing Premier League and Championship football clubs to introduce safe standing”.
