Regardless of footballing success, FC Twente seems to bring the most unwittingly entertaining side out of former England coach Steve McLaren, and while his first spell at the club wash notable for fake exchaggerated Dutch acchent, the second looksh like it might be plaged by shupernatural ghoshts for poor Schteve, yesh?

NACIONAL POTOSI 1-0 THE STRONGEST

This Bolivian league match between Nacional Potosi and The Strongest was the setting for this goal, which has since become a YouTube sensation. Not every day do you see a scorpion kick from outside the box find the back of the net…

FREDRIKSTAD FK BOB 2-1 SARPSBORG BOB

Following on from their efforts at providing a power-charged tweak to football, the team at TV2 (Norway) show Golden Goal have another one, reportedly part of a number of ideas tested on the sporting magazine show. This one seems to permit a lot more aggressive play, in that the participants are all encased in a protective inflatable bubble for their whole upper body.

The fact that they were on more of an exhibition-style match on a TV show did not stop professional football players from Fredrikstad FK and Sarpsborg 08 from going gung-ho in ‘Boblefotball’. Who was the brains behind this version of the game, then…

Due for a release in March, EA Sports are relaunching their FIFA Street franchise with a new release that will be considered an effort to rival the successes EA Sports ‘street’ releases in sports such as basketball and american football.

The game’s line producer Sid Misra had said of the game when it was first announced: “This is a reboot of the FIFA Street franchise, so what you know of FIFA Street 1, 2 and 3, you can forget about it. What we really wanted to do is come out with the first truly great street football experience. There hasn’t been one yet.”

The title, which shares its name with the first game of the series from 2005, will include a number of authentic factors such as players, venues, and teams, while the ‘moves’ will be entertaining but not ‘overly arcade’. For users looking for a little bit more of a realistic experience, there is said to even be an official ‘futsal’ game mode to try, while the cover will try and entice undecided buyers in with none other than Lionel Messi. The official announcement trailer for FIFA Street can be seen below:

Former Japan international Shunsuke Nakamura currently plies his trade for J.League club Yokohama F. Marinos, but despite a fairly successful career for a number of clubs and his country, the renowned free-kick specialist still likes to put in some target practice, with public transportation on live TV being his method of choice…

This goal from the Faroe Islands Premier League in the 2008 season was scored by B36 Torshavn’s Jakup a Borg, with a little help from a Faroese wind…

This video documents an amazingly long-standing annual tradition revolving around a single header by Aldo Hoy for Argentinan club Rosario Central in 1971, leading to what has been dubbed the longest active celebration of a goal in history…

RUS BAN 6-1 SWE BAN

The lesser-known winter sport of bandy prepares for its best international sides to contest the annual FIB World Championships next week (in Kazakhstan), in a discipline which could be considered a ‘hybrid’ of football and ice hockey, with many of the rules stemming from the former (e.g. ‘pitch’ size, using a ball, 11 on-pitch players, goalkeeper rules, etc.), which has led the sport to be dubbed ‘football of the winter’.

Like the relationship futsal has to football, bandy’s FIB also commissions an official ‘small-sided’ version (‘rink bandy’) in a display which further seems to cement the similarities.

In the world of bandy, which is considerably smaller than that of football (with 28 registered national FIB federations, with only 15 of those offering an ‘active’ men’s national team), Russia, Sweden, and Finland are generally seen as by far the most successful nations, with the former two regularly contesting the World Championships final, as seen in the 2008 tournament hosted by Russia:

Martin Keown is not the first football TV presenter to have been an active part of a team’s target practice, as this pitchside reporter (in an unspecified country) demonstrates. Unlike Keown, though, she reacts to the sudden hit for all of 1 second, before carrying on as though nothing happened…

If you are out on a football pitch this Friday 13th, try to avoid the fate of these unfortunate victims of ‘og’ seen below, even if a majority of them did not suffer their problem on the unlucky date.

On any other day, you could make an argument that some of these may have been a little less to do with bad luck, but you wouldn’t want to tempt too much fate until tomorrow at least…