Another week has gone by and the future for a lot of our favourite football leagues remains fairly uncertain, but are there signs for optimism in the press this week? We round up a bit more on that plus provide you with some top football content to see you through another weekend without big game action.
? WHAT TO WATCH
A lot of people are doing it, but few are doing it as well as the Bundesliga YouTube channel – this afternoon, they’ve posted the full match between Borussia Dortmund and Bayern München from the 2011/12 season. This game basically decided the title race and gave a Jürgen Klopp his last title in Germany. Well worth reliving, even with that spoiler!
?? BELARUS IN THE SPOTLIGHT AGAIN!
Europe’s last active league continues at pace over what for many, is the long Easter weekend with games from today through to Monday.
Week 3 produced more big shocks as last year’s champions, Dynamo Brest lost to Slavia Mozyr and Energetik came through their top of the table clash against FC Minsk. The student side are now the only team with a 100% record.
BATE Borisov (who won 13 consecutive titles until last year) did finally pick up their first win of the season and they’ll look to improve on that when they face FC Minsk in the capital on Sunday.
?️ CAST YOUR VOTE!
This week over on Twitter, we’ve been running the inaugural FotMob World Cup of Club Crests!
We took 64 teams, nominated by our followers and supplemented with a few of our own suggestions and threw them in to a hat. From there, we’ve been drawing sides together and asking you to vote for your favourite club badge to go through each day.
We’re now at the semi-final stage and we’re left with 4 North American sides from a couple of our favourite leagues to follow. Head over to our Twitter to join in later!
? SOMETHING TO READ
With the news that the Bundesliga is looking to restart, behind closed doors in early May and with all their teams back in training this week – you may be interested to read more on this from the New York times, as they talk to the league’s CEO Christian Seifert.
And if long reads, on mostly long forgotten football tournaments are your thing – we enjoyed digging into this, from Rupert Fryer on the Intercontinental Final between Boca Juniors and Real Madrid in the year 2000, available from the archives of The Blizzard. As an added bonus, someone has now put the full game on YouTube – enjoy watching the likes of Juan Román Riquelme and Martín Palermo go up against an early galáticos-era Madrid side.
We’ve added another league to the app this week, and one that is also flying in the face of the global pandemic by carrying on as normal! The 16th round of the Clausura season takes place on Saturday night.
Sadly, both the Central American versions of these sides are struggling outside the top 8, so you may want to focus on Managua’s title charge as they travel to strugglers, Deportivo Las Sabanas.
? SOMETHING TO LISTEN TO
The presenters and pundits from the UK’s largest football show have pivoted to podcasts in recent times – meaning you can now listen to English legends, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Ian Wright wax lyrical about their favourite moments, players and managers in Premier League history. The extra good news is that this is available around the world via the BBC Sounds app.
And as usual, the Golazzo Italian Football Show has served up another cracking history lesson from Serie A. This week, they focus on ‘Il Trio Magico’ – the 3 forwards who cemented Juventus’ worldwide reputation in the 1950s. Please listen here, it’s great.
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