Posted on 4th August 2017
Europe’s biggest clubs have been roundly criticised by their own supporters today over plans to expand the Champions League.
Posted on 4th August 2017
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Pre-season is coming to a close and with it the paucity of And finally… contenders. Thanks this week then to Eibar full-back José Ángel this classic own goal. The despairing dive from his keeper really ties it all together.
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Europe’s biggest clubs have been roundly criticised by their own supporters today over plans to expand the Champions League.
Valencia beat Barcelona in the Copa Del Rey final this week with a 2-1 win at Estadio Benito Villamarín. Arturo Vidal had a chance to get Barcelona back in the game in the 55th minute, after the usual sublime skill from Lionel Messi, but the Chilean’s wild slice sent the rebound into row Z.
Echoes of Jason Cundy at Portman Road in the nineties with this week’s And finally – a truly daft goal from Extremadura’s Carlos Pomares against Cadiz in La Liga II – a block tackle on the halfway sending the ball 50 yards over the Cadiz keeper.
Wendy Renard gives us the first entry into the And finally… archive from this summer’s Women’s World Cup in France. The French defender’s meek intervention sends the ball trickling over the line (skip to 51 seconds).