THE PUSGAFFES?<\/p>\n
Sure, volleying a can of Tin from the bath straight into the bin feels good, but have you ever felt the rush of successfully slipping a foreign word in a sentence? Whether Football Daily is subtly and frivolously deploying a \u201cmerci\u201d at Pret a Manger or winning hearts and minds at Football Daily Towers by describing an overcome hangover as the greatest remontada since Barcelona\u2019s 6-1 win over PSG in 2017<\/a>, there is simply nothing like the smugness one feels after borrowing a word or two from our European brethren.<\/p>\n In recent years, German words have, rather pleasingly, crept into the football lexicon. Have you even played Football\/Championship Manager if you don\u2019t know what a raumdeuter (translation: space investigator or space invader<\/a>) is? Readers, just wait for the reaction from your peers when you successfully drop bananenflanke (banana-shaped cross) or gurkenspiel (cucumber game\/boring game) into casual conversation. In this week\u2019s deep dive into the more unusual corners of the internet, Football Daily happened upon a new term \u2013 \u201ckacktor\u201d, which literally translates as \u201csh!t goal\u201d \u2013 when perusing a compilation, made by German broadcaster WDR<\/a>, of the worst goals scored in 2025.<\/p>\n Some of the efforts are truly mesmeric. It possibly doesn\u2019t get better than our opener from Borussia Dortmund II\u2019s Franz Roggow, who somehow manages to convert a wild own goal after a goalmouth scramble for the ages<\/a>. A penny for the thoughts of Jan Himel, of SG Oberense 2, who decided (under almost zero pressure) to pick out the top corner of his own goal<\/a> when attempting a clearance. And please enjoy Patrick Bruns\u2019 towering header for Alemannia Salzbergen<\/a>, converting the rebound into his own goal coming just seconds after an equally spectacular miss from opponents ASV Altenlingen.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Seemingly determined to make a global 2026 list, Stockport County put forward their entry at the weekend in the 3-2 win over Rotherham, goalkeeper Ben Hinchliffe launching a counter attack straight into the bent-over behind of teammate Joe Olowu, the pair watching on helplessly as the ball ballooned back over Hinchliffe\u2019s head and into the empty net<\/a>. You can keep your Pusk\u00e1s awards, your Big Website top 100s, Fifa\u2019s The Best ceremony. Football Daily is, from this day forward, only interested in The Worst, and we eagerly anticipate WDR\u2019s end-of-year compilation in which we can once again revel in a hearty dose of schadenfreude.<\/p>\n LIVE ON BIG WEBSITE<\/p>\n Join Michael Butler from 8pm GMT for hot minute-by-minute updates on Marseille 2-2 Liverpool in Bigger Cup, while Luke McLaughlin will have all the goals from the other games, including Chelsea 2-0 Pafos and Newcastle 3-2 PSV, in his clockwatch.<\/p>\n QUOTE OF THE DAY<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t have the answers. I take full responsibility of not being able to score the goals I should do. I just apologise to everyone; every single City supporter and every single supporter that travelled, because in the end it\u2019s embarrassing. Bod\u00f8, they played some incredible football, and in the end it\u2019s deserved. Honestly, I don\u2019t know what to say because I don\u2019t have the answers, and what I can say is sorry\u201d \u2013 perhaps because he\u2019s the Norwegian with the broadest shoulders in the Manchester City team, Erling Haaland faces up to the media to issue a grovelling apology after his boys took one hell of a Bigger Cup beating<\/a> in an Arctic circle fishing town.<\/p>\n Couldn\u2019t do it on a wet, cold, Tuesday night in \u2026 er \u2026 Bod\u00f8. Photograph: Andrew Boyers\/Action Images\/Reuters<\/p>\n How do you know that Dan Levy is \u2018not that one\u2019 (yesterday\u2019s Football Daily letters<\/a>)? Have you called or emailed this subscriber to check in? That would surely take so long to obtain a response that his contribution might then be well out of date. I\u2019m interested to know Football Daily\u2019s service levels for checking on facts, data and details. Or perhaps you just print and hope Dan Levy does not respond later in the week? With prizes on offer, any scoundrel (like this one) will happily make a contribution. Who knows, maybe the Daniel Levy has moved north to get away from the Spurs whingers? Maybe he is an interested investor in Stockport \u2013 in which case FD has an exclusive\u201d \u2013 David Beckham (OK, Marc Meldrum).<\/p>\n Further to Dan (not that one) writing about the comic own goal at Stockport County, it\u2019s definitely time to relive Cambridge United\u2019s greatest but most @rsey goal ever<\/a>, scored against Notts County. I\u2019m now wondering whether County goalies specifically train for this kind of thing?\u201d \u2013 John Kyle.<\/p>\n Manchester City get beat by Bod\u00f8. A brash superpower taught a lesson by plucky Scandinavians. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s a metaphor here somewhere\u201d \u2013 Kev McCready.<\/p>\n I know it is not his surname, but as it sounds more poetic, can a missed Panenka now be known as a \u2018Brahim\u2019? As Pel\u00e9 is alleged to have said after watching Panenka take his, er, \u2018Panenka\u2019 \u2013 he is \u2018either a genius or a madman\u2019\u201d \u2013 Aram Raworth.<\/p>\n If you have any, please send letters to the.boss@theguardian.com<\/a>. Today\u2019s winner of our letter o\u2019 the day is \u2026 Kev McCready, who lands some hot Football Weekly merch. Terms and conditions for our competitions are here<\/a>.\u200a<\/p>\n RECOMMENDED LISTENING<\/p>\n