This has been everywhere so you've probably already seen it. Also, it's a rare example of the KNVB and their broadcast partners leaving a clip online for long enough for people to watch and share.
Basically, Graafschap got relegated after a defeat to Den Bosch in the second round of the play-offs that determine the final two places in next season's Eredivisie. Players slump to the floor in the time-honoured fashion, none moreso than skipper Rogier Meijer. His daughter comes over to see if he's OK.
Run VT:
It is almost - almost - enough to make me think that having kids might even be a worthwhile thing to do in case I ever have to cope with major disappointment in life (if you never expect anything good to happen, disappointment is rarely an issue), rather than believe them to be harbingers of doom, impingers of lifestyle and drains on beer money that I have until now suspected them to be.
Unbelievable Jeff.
Now if you'll excuse me, I seem to have something in my eye.
We love a penalty shoot-out and wish a pox on the house of anyone who describes them as a lottery.
Self-indulgently sharing the best penalty shoot-out ever. On a freezing night in York three years ago in a sparsely attended FA Trophy 3rd round replay, York City and Kidderminster Harriers mustered 25 successful penalties in a row in an epic shoot-out.
This week, we're sending a Euroballs delegation to York for a league game against Newport County, the two sides that will be appearing in this season's FA Trophy final.
Back to Germany for yet another Unbelievable Jeff. Friday night saw Stuttgart go to the Westfalenstadion to take on champions Dortmund. What a game. 1-0 at the break, it ended with eight goals, lots of drama and despite conceding four times, the outstanding player on the pitch was centre-back Mats Hummels. Have a look at the ball for BvB's second and the finish for the third. And on the sidelines, Jurgen Klopp and Bruno Labbadia were almost as entertaining as everything that went on elsewhere.
Game of the season? Something pretty bloody spectacular has to happen to top it. The Bundesliga is bloody great.
We've all been there, watching our teams fail to score game after game. For five games in a row, 1.FC Magdeburg over Regionalliga Nord failed to find the net. Fortunately, their fans helped the team find their way to goal.
Last night was quite remarkable as Athletic Club went out and did to Manchester United precisely what they did a week previously. It was another terrific game punctuated by moments of absolute genius. Llorente's goal off an amazing ball from Fernando Amorebieta and Rooney's late consolation were both exceptional, as was Toquero rocking up at left-back and Amorebieta going a full game without a booking. Highlight, however, was right-back Andoni Iraola almost scoring the best goal since, well, ever.
Everyone loves a team goal, right? Don't argue, it's a fact. Esteban Cambiasso against Serbia, Carlos Alberto in the 1970 World Cup final, even this pearler from Benjamin Huggel are all great examples of the collective coming together in spectacular fashion.
Now, there's a new entry in the great team goal pantheon and it's from the A-League. Adelaide are away to Brisbane, it's 0-0 and the home side are on the attack:
What a weekend it was in Spain's Primera Liga. Goals rained in everywhere and a lot of them were very special indeed. All four goals in the Getafe v Málaga game were outstanding, none moreso than the absolute rocket that left the unlikely boot of Jeremy Toulalan. Speaking of unlikely scorers, Barcelona were indebted to Seydou Keita (who we're big fans of) as the ten men of the champions struggled past a gritty, if limited, Sporting Gijon side. Bottom side Real Zaragoza got a vital win over fellow strugglers Villarreal thanks in part to a cracking equaliser from Luis Garciá.
But none of that makes our entry for Unbelievable Jeff today You see, we had a delegation in Spain this weekend for the big game of the round, the Basque derby between Athletic Club and Real Sociedad.
Arriving in Bilbao on Friday afternoon, the hotel was located and it was straight up to San Mamés where a small queue was formed up from the ticket windows. Socios only, however. Come back at half ten tomorrow morning. We got there early, but the queue snaked round from the ticket windows right up to the hole in the ground that will one day be the new San Mamés. Thick end of two hours later, it was apparent that there were no more available. We tried again on Sunday morning and got talking to some of the ultras in a bar over the road from the ground. Complete sell-out. The queues were huge on Thursday and Friday morning before we arrived and every one had been taken.
We'd been out and about in the town on Friday and Saturday and already been won over by the place. It's not exactly a tourist town, so the fact we were there at all, let alone for the football, proved quite the novelty for the locals. We were made extremely welcome and we figured that watching the match in one of the bars near the ground wouldn't be a bad second choice. How right we were.
Cider and what looked to be a sickly combination of red wine and coke was flowing from 10am. The streets and bars were packed, blue and white mingling freely with red and white with nary a hint of trouble nor the sight of a single copper. Two weeks previously, I was at a game between a blue and white striped team and a red and white striped one and every copper in West Yorkshire seemed to be in town. Commuters just trying to get home were being filmed as they got off the train, so the Spanish approach was welcome and refreshing.
We watched the Zarzgoza v Villarreal game in one bar and wandered off to grab a decent spot at another for the main event. It was gloriously chaotic everywhere, but we grabbed a spot in a bar where we'd seen the previous night's games. Beer and pinxtos disappeared down our faces at alarming rates as the atmosphere continued to build.
Athletic dominated the game which was played in an absolute deluge and took the lead midway through the first half as Susaeta finished off a typically Bielsan passage of neat, passing play. The big moment in the game came in the second half when a rare spell of pressure from La Real produced a goal for Carlos Vela that, crucially, none of the officials saw. Athletic responded to it better than La Real and Susaeta, the best player on the field by some distance, made it safe ten minutes from the end with a ripper of a free-kick:
As unbelievable (Jeff) as that was, that's still not the point of writing this. What was unbelievable, Jeff, was the city, the people, the atmosphere, the camaraderie, the whole experience. A fabulous weekend had by the pair of us, a colossal amount of beer consumed and football watched, capped by that wonderful effort from Susaeta.
Back to reality now though as I have been roped in to cover the Huddersfield v Hartlepool game tonight. I don't know how it's going to measure up to what I was party to this weekend. If it's even 20% as good as the derby, I'll be a happy man.
Who wouldn't want to see a video of Michel Platini booting a lad and swinging a massive haymaker?
Not that Michel Platini, of course (sadly), but rather the Brazilian attacker currently playing for CSKA Sofia who were involved in a friendly - yes, a friendly - with Dinamo Bucharest during the winter break out in that part of the world.
What's better than a one-two? How about two one-twos and a really nice finish?
Yes, it's the irrepressible and resurgent Gladbach again, this time with Mike Hanke on the end of things:
From a few weeks ago, when Gladbach gubbed Bayern. It's the Foals' second goal, scored by the Chimbonda'd Patrick Herrmann. What's particularly Unbelievable Jeff about it is that they allow Bayern to knock it about, but then get bored and counter, as if to say "yeah, yeah. Enough of that. Give it here and see what we can do with it".
What's not unbelievable, Jeff, is that Lionel Messi features in this clip. But it does contain three of our favourite things about the game: a great through-ball, a great first touch and a goal.
So you're level at 2-2 deep into stoppage time at the end of a thrilling game. You get a free-kick just outside your opponents box. Scoring it would eliminate them and send you, the co-hosts, through to the next round.
Up steps Zita:
As we alluded to in the last ACN round-up, the last few minutes of the Equatorial Guinea v Senegal game were quite something. Let's pick the action up just as Moussa Sow equalises for the Teranga Lions:
So you're a striker. Your first touch is rubbish - even takes you away from goal. What do you do? Hows about taking another touch away from goal and back-heeling it back past the lackadaisical keeper?
So, tonight's Dutch Cup match between Ajax Amsterdam and AZ Alkmaar was abandoned after this incident when an idiot fan ran onto the pitch to attack the AZ goalkeeper Esteban. The fan comes running on with a flying kick at the Costa Rican stopper who manages to avoid the idiot before landing a couple of hefty boots himself. Esteban was subsequently sent off by Jeremain Len's best friend Bas Nijhuis after the incident, so the whole AZ team did the decent thing and trooped off behind. The match was suspended and subsequently abandoned.
As we thought, the YouTube video got pulled so here it is on the BBC Sport Website
