Total Goalnets - FC Twente

Most fans in the UK were too busy sniggering at Shteeve McClaren's Dutch accent to fully appreciate FC Twente's - and McClaren's - achievement in seeing of perennial heavyweights PSV and a free-scoring Ajax and Luis Suarez to win their first ever Eredivisie title in 2010.



35 years earlier FC Twente had their first brush with major success. However they were crushed in their home leg of the UEFA Cup final to an excellent Borussia Monchengladbach side, who netted five into the Twente A-frames.

World Cup 2010 - such a shame

South Africa beat Colombia at Soccer City and we got first look at what the World Cup goalnets will look like -


World Cups used to be about innovation, in tactics, strips and goalnets. Even the free-hanging boxnet was an innovation in its day. But that was 36 years ago. One can only mourn South Africa's spurning the opportunity to set a new trend in on-field architecture, such a shame.