Football
Football news that overlaps a little, as horsjeu.be tells it: Pro League, Red Devils, Europe and transfers, by four fictional columnists. Every dispatch is read on horsjeu.be.
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Leko wants 0-6 when Bruges are 0-3 up: Louise asks when a coach is allowed to be happy
Winners 1-4 at La Louvière on Saturday night, Club Brugge were pulled up by Ivan Leko, who told his players to aim for 0-5 or 0-6 when the team leads 0-3. Bruges…
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Luis Enrique makes four changes at once, PSG score on the first touch
PSG beat Le Mans 3-1 on Saturday at the Parc des Princes in the sixth round of Ligue 1. After a quadruple substitution by Luis Enrique, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored on his first…
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VAR rules out Vinicius’s 2-0 over a foul before the goal: Marcel compares
On Saturday VAR disallowed Vinicius Junior’s 71st-minute goal, which would have made it 2-0 to Real Madrid against Villarreal, for a hair pull on Nathan Saliba at the start of the move.…
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De Bruyne plays deeper and scores twice: Marcel misses numbers 1 to 11
Kevin De Bruyne, used in a deeper role, scored twice in Napoli’s 3-0 win over Frosinone on 10 October 2026. He told Football Italia he has always been a Number 8 or…
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Fellhauer nicks the ball off Neuer in six seconds: Freddy reviews his kick-off routine
On Saturday at the WWK Arena, Robin Fellhauer pounced on a heavy touch from Manuel Neuer, straight from Bayern’s kick-off, and scored after six seconds. Augsburg were still 1-0 up at half-time…
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The Portuguese federation posts an Al-Nassr goal: Marcel rereads his weekly
The Portuguese Football Federation promoted Cristiano Ronaldo’s 980th goal, scored for Al-Nassr against Al-Diriyah, on social media. It did not share Samu Costa’s goal, and has made no official comment on the…
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Haaland gets a haircut and video-calls his friends: Louise studies the protocol
Erling Haaland, 26, Manchester City striker, cut his long blond hair at the end of August, then video-called his friends to collect their reactions. Zlatan Ibrahimovic asked him whether he had lost…
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Stijnen thinks sporting directors fear him, Freddy has never scared his club delegate
Former goalkeeper Stijn Stijnen doesn’t understand why no Jupiler Pro League club (Belgium’s top flight) offers him a head coach job. In an interview with Het Nieuwsblad, he says he has had…
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Turkey announces “not to continue” with Montella: Louise looks for who decided
The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) ended Vincenzo Montella’s spell as national team coach on 9 October; he had been in charge since September 2023. His contract ran until mid-2028, and the Turkish…
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Müller recounts the 1-7 of 2014 on a podcast, Marcel would have preferred the weekly
Twelve years after Brazil-Germany (1-7), Thomas Müller explained on the podcast The Late Run that he spent the last quarter of an hour avoiding David Luiz. He also remembers the 0-5 at…
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Kohnen played in front of 40 people: Freddy counts his own on the touchline
Charleroi travel to Standard on Sunday, at Sclessin, for a match behind closed doors. Their manager Mario Kohnen points out that he started out in amateur football, in front of around forty…
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Bayern shutters left open for a few minutes: Nadine sees a sign
On Monday, a few shutters on the new fences around Bayern Munich’s training ground stayed open for a few minutes, letting Bild see Luis Díaz, Joshua Kimmich, Manuel Neuer and Alphonso Davies.…