Figueroa Wondergoal!

A little quick one here. Wigan's Figueroa makes a pre-Christmas claim to the Goal of the Season award. A fantastic shot, accompanied by a not so sublime sexist comment by Match of the Day's Alan Hansen. Someone should remind Hansen who Gabby Logan is married to! Surely the Scot is no match for a international class rugby player.

Genius, unintended brilliance, and nail-clipping

The football season is over and so it's time for all those round-ups of highlights, funniest quotes etc etc. The Guardian's Rafa Honigstein and Sid Lowe (both regular guests on the wonderful Football Weekly podcast) have compiled theirs for Germany and Spain respectively. You can read both their articles in full but here I thought I'd just pull out a couple of the best videos.

First up there's a sublime goal from Germany. Watch as Wolfburg's Grafite skips past half the Bayern Munich team before casually putting the ball into the net almost mockingly. It was the final straw for Bayern's directors, Jurgen Klinsmann recieved his P45 after the game:


Also from Germany, but at the other end of the spectrum, here's a 'there's-no-way on-earth-he-meant-to-do-that' goal from Sebastian Langkamp against Leverkusen:


From Spain there is Yaya Toure's fantastic goal for Barcelona to equalise in the cup final:


and, because we've had a taste of the sublime we need also a little bit of the ridiculous.
Here's what Real Madrid manager Juande Ramos got up to on the bench after giving up on the season:

Why Wikipedia is great...

Because where else do you get irreverent but wonderful golden nuggets of information such as this on mid-nineties Leeds United football hero Tony Yeboah...

"Yeboah often cited his good form and prowess while at Leeds was down to his love for Yorkshire Puddings"

Tony Yeboah, like a Northern Popeye.