Posted on 2nd March 2018
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
The A-League’s Melbourne derby provides us with a classic of the open-goal-miss genre this week. James Troisi somehow failed to pass the ball into an empty net on the break. Sadly, it mattered not as his team won seconds later.
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That’s enough football now, thank you Australia. That’s enough. Fold the league.pic.twitter.com/vqZkME1sVy
— MUNDIAL (@MundialMag) March 2, 2018
Al Gharafa’s Medhi Taremi provides us with another high quality entry into the And finally… library of hilarious misses this week. Latching onto a through ball, Taremi gets passed a lunging goalkeeper only to feebly miss in the end. At least he tried.
Tough times for And finally… this week with the international break. Thankfully, a poor young Brentford under-23 player has stepped in to save us from a severe content drought. Let’s hope the rookie defender learns from this horrorshow.
What does €40 million get you in today’s transfer market? Well, take a look for yourselves as Brazil & Barcelona midfielder Paulinho showed off his finishing skills against Russia this week.
Zenit’s recent 2,000km trip to Ufa in Bashkortostan makes a rainy night in Stoke seem trivial – but they came away with three points thanks in part this own goal – the defender hindered by the use of a white ball on the snow-covered pitch.
