Posted on 15th December 2016
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
You can head to Match of the Day, Sky Sports or your newspaper of choice to celebrate the amazing technical feats, athletic prowess and skill shown across football in 2016. Not here, though. Here we’ll be looking at worst misses, own goals and defensive blunders from the last 12 months…
1) And finallly… free kick routines
We’ve seen a number of teams trying out elaborate and pointless free-kick routines this year (we’re looking at you, Brentford). NAC Breda took up that trend with this terrible effort. Can you even tell what they were going for?
2) And finally… nowhere to hide
One small consolation for Ajax Cape Town goalkeeper Anssi Jaakola was that so few fans were present to witness this horror show. Incidentally, Ajax Cape Town would go on to lose this match 2-1 to Orland Pirates.
3) And finally… record breakers
Despite settling into mid-table ennui in the Bundesliga, Vfb Stuttgart still entered the record books at the end of last season They scored six own goals, the most in the league’s 53-year history. It’s hard to pick a favourite.
4) And finally… it pours
On another (less rainy) day, Spain may have won the Women’s U19 European Championship this year. Their captain Nahikari Garcia should have equalised in the 92nd minute with this close range effort. She also missed a penalty earlier on. Gutted.
A classic of the pre-season variety from Buckley Town as their player receives the ball out wide, gets away with a nightmare-ish first touch before running the length of the pitch to score with an absolutely sublime finish. Hats off that man.
The Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) was contacted last night by the Sports Ground Safety Association (SGSA), who told us that the option for football clubs to offer licensed standing at all levels of the game in England and Wales has at last been passed into official Government policy.
Tottenham Hotspur and the club’s supporters’ trust have joined forces in a new partnership which will support local foodbanks – the latest example of fan work in the field.
The trials of running online meetings and officers overstepping their authority were laid bare when the chaotic Handforth Parish Council meeting went viral at the weekend. Here the FSA’s training and governance manager Nicola Cave offers advice, and online resources, to supporter groups on hosting online meetings and standing orders…
