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Aubameyang and Reus celebrate derby goal by wearing Batman and Robin masks

Borussia Dortmund’s long await run of good form continued with a 3-0 win against rivals Schalke, pushing them to ninth in the table and putting their goal difference back to a neutral position. The four consecutive wins seem to have the players in good spirits again too, as Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Marco Reus celebrated Dortmund’s 78th-minute opener by wearing Batman and Robin masks that were stashed in a bag behind the goal.

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Spurs provide sad cup final party planning tools for their most incompetent fans

Spurs are very excited about being in a cup final, but since a few years have passed since they last reached this point in 2009, they felt the need to help supporters through the most basic elements of party planning for the occasion. You know, just in case a sizable portion of their fanbase thinks that nachos are made with rat poison and have never experienced a social gathering before.

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Rise of sports data gathering firms providing opportunity to fix matches that don’t exist

Though images of players and officials pocketing wads of cash are the first that come to mind when match fixing is discussed, the practice can take many forms. And now match fixers have developed a simple new way of living up to their name: having people bet on matches that don’t actually exist. Ghost games.

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Group of Chelsea fans, Arrigo Sacchi destroy the absurd fantasy that there’s no racism in football

It can be far too easy for people who aren’t directly affected by racism to dismiss it as a thing of the past. Over the last few years, both FIFA president Sepp Blatter and Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho have both denied the existence of racism in various aspects of football. But, in quick succession, a group of Chelsea fans in Paris and former Italy manager Arrigo Sacchi have provided crystal clear reminders of just how incredibly wrong that notion is at every level.

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Australian defender scores own goal from 40 yards out

Central Coast Mariners defender Josh Rose scored one of the most excruciating own goals in recent memory when a misjudged backpass turned into an own goal from 40 yards out in the 89th minute of an AFC Champions League match against Guangzhou R&F.

Mariners keeper Liam Reddy was almost closer to Rose than he was to his own net when the 33-year-old defender attempted the pass in the 89th minute with R&F up 2-0. So Reddy had some distance to cover in his futile attempt to chase down the bouncing ball that made it 3-0.

The Australian club scored in added time, but losing 3-1 probably didn’t make them feel any better.

Bayern Munich fund 60 operations for children in Ukraine

Bayern Munich begin their Champions League round of 16 tie against Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday, but the first leg was moved to Lviv, a Ukrainian city 750 miles away from Donetsk. The decision to move the match came after Shakhtar’s Donbass Arena was damaged by artillery fire amidst the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine.

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Arda Turan given appropriate birthday cake days after throwing boot at linesman

During Wednesday’s action-packed Copa del Rey tie between Atletico Madrid and Barcelona, Arda Turan was so enraged by a refereeing decision that he threw one of his own boots at the referee. Amazingly, the Turkish midfielder was only given a yellow card for this heinous misappropriation of sporting apparel. 

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Letters from Bojan: A dream shatters

The earnest question of whether Lionel Messi could do it on a cold, wet night in Stoke has persisted as a cliched joke for a few years now. So when Barcelona surprisingly sold Bojan, a 24-year-old once hyped as the next Messi, to Stoke City, the only explanation was that Messi personally asked him to go there on an expedition to see if the conditions in this mythical place are as challenging as the fables suggest. This is Bojan’s fifth letter back to his friend.

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Santos Laguna’s Diego Gonzalez celebrates goal by using his boot as a phone and roping in a bystander

Diego Gonzalez contributed to Santos Laguna’s 4-1 win over Monterrey with a lovely seal header and then he immediately began his descent into insanity. The Argentine midfielder midfielder untied his shoe, took it off and went behind the goal. He held the boot up to his head like a telephone before sharing the imaginary call with a ball boy (or small teammate?) on the other side of the advertising board.

It’s unclear what the person/mythical beast on the other end of the boot phone said to them. Maybe it was a wrong number.