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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.

Atletico Madrid stuffed Barcelona 4-0 in the first leg of the Copa Del Rey semi-finals last night, leaving the Catalans with a mountain to climb. Barca’s night started going rapidly downhill in the sixth minute when Eric Garcia and Juan Garcia got themselves in a right old kerfuffle. After ten consecutive days of rain in Madrid, some Barca fans were actually blaming the pitch for the team’s dire performance.

Juventus haven’t won Serie A for nearly six years and currently find themselves ten points behind lead leaders Inter. This Andrea Cambiaso gives us a little glimpse into why the Italian giants might be so inconsistent showcasing a very stylish flicked finish. Into the wrong net.

We’ve already found a front-runner for the FSA’s Goal of the Year award in 2026, courtesy of Ryan Ledson’s superb long range effort from just inside his own half against Luton Town this week. We doubt you’ll see a sweeter strike all year, and to cap things off it gave 10-man Huddersfield a 1-0 win against the Hatters.

There was a cracking game at Edgeley Park at the weekend as Stockport County beat Rotherham 3-2. The game was blessed with not one, not two but three own goals in total. And we reckon the pick of the bunch is the beautiful ballet between Stockport ‘keeper Ben Hinchcliffe and his defender Joseph Olowu. A strong contender for own goal of the season.

In more news that will make you feel old, Papiss Cisse’s famous volley against Chelsea (the second one) is almost fourteen years old – having scored against the Blues for Newcastle United in May 2012. And this week his namesake at Stoke City, Lamine Cisse, did his best to impersonate that effort with a fantastic long-range effort to send the Potters through into the fourth round of the FA Cup. Nice advantage from the ref, too.