Sarah Arcand was in attendance at Real Madrid’s 4-0 win over Sevilla and happened to be sitting right behind the goal Cristiano Ronaldo was aiming for as he lined up a penalty. Naturally, she took out her phone to film her great perspective of this moment, but what she didn’t know was that she would end up being the star of her own film as Cristiano missed the goal and hit her eye instead.
Author: Brooks Peck
Antiques Roadshow appraises FA Cup at over £1 million, insults its design
There have been five FA Cup trophies over the years, but none have been lifted by more jubilant footballers than the one that served from 1911 to 1992. And it was this trophy that was brought to the Antiques Roadshow crew for appraisal because why the hell not?
You can now watch more than 16 consecutive hours of Gigi Buffon making saves
Unsure what to do with yourself to make it through the tedium of the international break? Well Juventus have come to the rescue by uploading a 973-minute long video of Gianluigi Buffon making saves to celebrate his Serie A clean sheet record of the same length.
As Juve point out, at the 4:07:57 mark, the video matches the time it takes to travel from Turin to Rome by train and at 9:16:57 it lasts as long as the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy.
Please alert your family before you start watching this video. Not that 16 hours is long enough for anyone to worry about not hearing from you, but surely they will be able to make arrangements to help you assimilate back into society after making it all the way through.
Romania players wear shirts with math problems to promote education
As Romania prepared for their friendly against Spain, the players wore special training tops with their shirt numbers represented by mathematical problems to promote education.
England come back from 2-0 down to beat Germany, destroy everything you thought you knew about real life
First things first, this was only a friendly. So you might want to recite that sentence after every single line of this post. That said, it’s only fitting that during a season in which Leicester City are on the verge of winning the Premier League title, England come back from 2-0 down to beat Germany at the Olympiastadion with total disregard for everything humankind knows to be true.
DTotD: Canada’s chiropractor smashes unsuspecting pitch invader
Mexico went to Canada and won 3-0 in a World Cup qualifier, which meant that the best moment of the evening for many fans in attendance was when Canada’s chiropractor absolutely leveled a pitch invader with a bone-crunching tackle from behind.
The man who made the tackle, Garret Kusch, is a former striker for the Canadian national team himself. After retiring in 2001, he became a chiropractor, which apparently involved studying exactly where to hit another person to completely incapacitate them.
Hopefully he slipped the pitch invader his business card for the spinal realignment he will inevitably need after this.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
U.S. concede two embarrassing goals in historic loss to Guatemala
Guatemala beat the U.S. 2-0 in a World Cup qualifier Friday night, which is the first time that has ever happened. Both goals were scored within the first 15 minutes of the game and both were rather shameful for the U.S.
When Johan Cruyff tributes go wrong
Oh Dear! Guardian Sport’s back page tribute to Johan Cruyff uses picture of Rob Rensenbrink instead. pic.twitter.com/5tmVFm5X5i
— Dutch Football (@football_oranje) March 24, 2016
Paying tribute to one of the greatest legends of football shouldn’t be hard. You share one of the many images of him, say something about his wide reaching influence on the game we all love and you’ve done it. But for some this proved to be surprisingly challenging.
DTotD: Vicente Del Bosque gets run over by linesman
During the first half of the international friendly between Italy and Spain, a linesman collided with Spain manager Vicente Del Bosque, sending the mustachioed World Cup winner to the ground.
Del Bosque shook hands with his assailant after getting up, showing that he forgave the linesman while we can only assume that his mustache did not. Sadly, the linesman was not booked for this shameful foul.
This has been the Dirty Tackle of the Day: a chronicling of unfortunate events.
Breaking News: Ashley Cole is happy again
LA Galaxy defender Ashley Cole has announced that he is, in fact, happy again. As the world rejoices in this wonderful news, we can trace his path from his lowest point to his current euphoria in just three steps.