An 80-Yard Goal To Seal It...

((HT: Fox Soccer/Bundesliga))

If I asked you who you thought was on top of the Bundesliga table after four matches, you'd probably give me something like Bayern Munich or Dortmund, right...???

What the HQ figured...

But, no, it's recently promoted Paderborn who are on top...

They sealed their win this weekend with one of those shots that went from one end to the other since the Hannover goalie was up on offense late in the match.

The ploy didn't work, thanks to Moritz Stoppelkamp

Goal Stoppelkamp [ Paderborn 2-0 Hannover ] 20... by Bundes2014

Sportsmanship...Pass It On...

In an age of diving, overacting, and really bad attempts at drawing fouls on your opponent...

There is an instance...

Notice the HQ said "an instance" of the exact opposite in the Bundesliga...

Werder Bremen's Aaron Hunt looks like he goes down, but he convinces the ref that FC Nurnberg's Javier Pinola doesn't, in fact, touch him, at all...

The situation goes from Bremen being 2-0 up, to facing a PK to go up 3, to getting back to a game that Bremen had in hand without the PK at all...

Here's analysis in German and you get to see what we're talking about...

Soccer Team Sells Out Game, Can't Watch It...

Beacuse, in the eyes of the German Bundesliga, they're a bunch of hooligans and can't be trusted to behave...

So, what if there was a game and no one was allowed to see it...???

You get Dynamo Dresden and Ingolstadt...
And, yes, the highlights are in German...
((HT: SkyBundesliga/youtube))


32,066 tickets sold... attendance- zero...
And, of course, the game was a scoreless draw...