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Most eyes may be on the World Cup but the Brasileiro Série B is right in the middle of its league season and there’s everything to play for – as promotion chasing Novorizontino and relegation battlers Ponte Preta showed this week. The game was ultimately decided by one of the stupidest passages of play we’ve ever seen. Defenders, attackers and the goalie all playing their parts.

There’s been loads of great goals in the World Cup already and it’s hard to pick a favourite. But Yasin Ayari’s effort for Sweden against Tunisia – from where his father hails – is a worthy contender. A rocket into the top corner. Jättebra.

World Cup co-hosts Mexico are in fine form – with seven wins and two draws from their last nine games – and if their opponents keep gifting them goals like this idiotic effort from Serbia in a pre-tournament friendly then they may well go far. Here’s hoping.

We won’t be seeing Poland at this summer’s World Cup as they were one of the many big(ish) European teams who underperformed in qualifying. That means Przemyslaw Wisniewski’s hammer of a right foot – seen here delivering a spectacular 95th minute equaliser – will sadly be consigned to post-season kickabouts.

At the weekend the FA’s Women’s National League held their annual awards event and supporters were recognised with a Fan of the Year category, supported by the FSA.

In the last game of the season, FC Andorra’s Marti Villa, and his barely-present goalkeeper Nicolas Ratti, provided us with a late contender for gaff of 2025-26. A deeply comical passage of play from the pair in what was, thankfully for them, a relatively meaningless mid-table kickabout. Enjoy the summer.

It’s the end of a long and tiring season for many players and, let’s face it, who doesn’t fancy an occasional nap during work hours? However, footballers must stay a little more alert, as sleeping in the box can have disastrous consequences.

What’s better than an own goal? An own goal straight from a throw-in the keeper could have left well alone? Check. An own goal that costs you the title in the 98th minute? Of course. An own goal that leaves your €208m-a-year superstar sulking alone on the bench? Love to see it.

Heidenheim are fighting for their lives at the foot of the Bundesliga but still have a chance of staying up with just two games to go. A win away at champions elect (again) Bayern Munich would have been a famous result for the Bavarian minnows but for the very untimely intervention of their ‘keepers head – the tenth minute of stoppage time no less.

We love a long, dribbley effort – ala Mickey Van Der Van, Hatem Ben Arfa or even George Weah for the well-seasoned – and this Ajax winger Mika Godts contributed to that mazy library with a fantastic solo effort against NAC Breda in the Eredivisie. Mooi.

We love it when ‘keepers score and Jack Bycroft’s is one of the best you’ll see. His bullet header equaliser against Stockport County in the 97th minute at the weekend is a memorable one – all the more special as it might just help keep League One football at St James’s Park for Exeter City next season.

A video from Paraguay for you this week, and genuinely one of the most bizarre goals we think we’ve ever featured on #ICYMI. Away side Olimpia were looking to double their 1-0 lead at Rubio Ñu after the award of a second half spot-kick, when Sebastián Ferreira saw his effort comfortably saved by the keeper. He still ends up on the scoresheet, however, in the most unlikely fashion.

If Porto go out of the Europa League by a single goal, then Martim Fernandes may be in for long, awkward summer. There aren’t many 50-yard own goals scored in professional football, but this has to be the best/worst we’ve seen in a long, long time.

The Western Conference of the USL Championship is underway and it’s already so close at the top – four games in – that goalkeepers are being sent up for corners in search of desperate last minute equalisers. It’s a high risk tactic as Oakland Roots vs Orange County proved this week. Roots keeper Raphael Spiegel was caught out and his demonstration of the darkest of the dark arts was rightly punished with a straight red.

What’s better than a quick goal to begin a game? A record breaking one. This week saw Celtic Women’s Maria McAneny confirmed as the scorer of the fastest goal in women’s top flight history, with her December strike against Hibernian Women clocking in at an impressive 4.10 seconds being inducted into the Guinness Book of World Records.

We love to see professional footballers throw their manager’s teamtalks and tactical plans down the toilet mere moments into a game. This week FC Hermannstadt took their ineptitude up a level: Tiberiu Capusa getting his face in the way of a clearance less than 90 seconds into their Romanian Super League match against UTA Arad. It didn’t get much better from there.

Chinese Taipei beat India 3-1 in the AFC Women’s Asian Cup this week, despite India taking the lead in the first half courtesy of Manisha Kalyan. Kalyan scored an absolute rocket of a free-kick, earning extra points for getting the crossbar involved.

Cardiff City are now top of League One and looking to bounce back into the Championship. This week they stuffed Doncaster Rovers 4-0 at the Keepmoat and the pick of the goals was a remarkable box-to-box run from Dylan Lawlor. Though you have to say he was aided by some truly naff defending, the young Bluebird won’t mind.

Perennial loanee Kenedy – formerly of Chelsea, Watford and Newcastle United on these shores – is now plying his trade at Mexican side Pachuca (on loan, of course) and served up one of the goals of the season against Tigres to give his side all three points this week.

It appears that Rochdale forward Emmanuel Dieseruvwe is not a scholar of recent penalty-taking history. Penalty-related buffoonery has been off the charts in recent seasons and we thought we’d seen the worst of it as players return to thumping the ball cleanly into net sans stupid run-ups or attempting ill-fated panenkas. But Dieseruvwe’s contribution to the annals this week was truly baffling – it’s difficult to guess what the hell he was thinking.