Posted on 16th March 2012
Last weekend’s FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool might have been short on goals, even if it was a great game, but viewers will have noticed an abundance of smoke bombs.
Posted on 16th March 2012
This is a story from the FSF archive – the FSF and SD merged to become the FSA in 2019.
Turkish Super Lig club Eskişehirspor aren’t one of their country’s most successful sides but they do have some of its most passionate supporters. When the Turkish FA banned flares the club’s fans responded by unfurling a giant, hole-ridden, banner under which supporters lit their flares with impunity and anonymity. Watch the simultaneously impressive and scary sight below.
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Last weekend’s FA Cup final between Chelsea and Liverpool might have been short on goals, even if it was a great game, but viewers will have noticed an abundance of smoke bombs.
Schalke 04’s new signing Benito Raman looks like he has some cobwebs to dust off if this pre-season kick-about against Oberhausen is anything to go by – as the young Belgian is seen scuffing his chance at an open goal…
We regularly document the incompetence of professional footballers with And finally… but this week LA FC’s Mohamed El Munir shows us that extreme competence, with a fantastic recovering tackle, is just as memorable. His heroics kept the score down to 1-0, and LA would eventually come back to beat Houston Dynamo 3-1.
Atlanta United’s Josef Martinez is And finally’s class clown this week by way of this truly imbecilic penalty. Luckily for him he redeemed himself by scoring a 92nd minute winner – but hopefully the Venezuelan has learned a valuable lesson about show boating.