This is agonising. Hans-Günter Bruns of Borussia Mönchengladbach’s runs the entire length of the pitch in Bundesliga game away at Bayern Munich, plays a lovely one-two and fires past the keeper……. I wouldn’t have blamed him if he’d put his hands on his hips and carried on walking straight off the pitch.

From The Guardian’s excellent ‘The Knowledge‘ section is an entry this week about Oxford United v Leyton Orient on the final day of the 2005-06 season.

“Orient needed to do at least as well as Grimsby, who were at home to Northampton, to be promoted, while Oxford needed to win to stand a chance of avoiding relegation to the Conference,” writes Csaba Abrahall. “It was a mad afternoon, and the game was poised at 2-2 going into stoppage time. With Grimsby ahead against Northampton, a draw was no use to either team, leading to a bizarre conclusion in which both sides threw everything into attack. Just as Orient broke up an Oxford attack, Northampton equalised at Grimsby, meaning that a draw would do for the Os. But the news wasn’t relayed to the players in time to prevent Luke Steele from scoring a winner in a five-against-one situation. So Orient went up, Oxford went down, and fans looked forward to the summer to recover.”

Just listen to the commentary…

“RAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHAGUIBEGYIBSDLGVNSODGVNJ”

This is Mads Hansen, captain of Mjondalens  setting off on a ridiculous run from his own half against Honefoss in the Norwegian second division. “Pass it, you’ll never score”

Always worth watching again – the best goal of the World Cup in 2002

Liverpool were the best team in Europe at the time but Keegan, Cassells, Ball, Baker, Armstrong and Channon ripped straight through them. The pace at which they keep the ball moving is even more stunning than the finish.

Muhteşem Gol means ‘Beautiful Goal’. There isn’t much more to add to Paraguayan hotshot Jose Saturnino Cardozo’s spellbinding end-to-end goal for Deportivo Toluca.

Celtic needed to win this game by several goals and hope that Hearts failed to win. They did and and in the process Celtic came up with this move of sheer coast-to-coast beauty featuring a Cruyff turn, one-touch passing, a nutmeg and an inch perfect through ball for Mo Johnstone to get on the end of. Absolute class.