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Carlisle United fans got free tickets for clearing snow at Brunton Park, where Carlisle beat Grimsby Town, 2-0, after volunteering to help get the field playable. Scores of other games and hundreds ofschools in Britain have been close because of the storm. Here’s a 50-second time lapse of four hours of work. Fourhours work condensed […]

Liverpool’s German coach tries to learn to pronounce a word he’s told not to use. It happened during a press conference when Juergen Klopp  was giving a health update on hisplayers, which included cases of diarrhea. Klopp learns about “the runs”! pic.twitter.com/qYuyZQTo96 — This Is Anfield(@thisisanfield) March 2, 2018

Jack Butland‘s quest to keep goal for England at the 2018 World Cup suffered a setback. The Stoke City man deflected a cross from Leicester City’s Marc Albrighton into his net in the 1-1 tie. It’s the third replay that shows how big a blunder it was.

Duisburg keeper Mark Flekken‘s ill-timed water break resulted in an epic goalkeeper blunder. Flekken, who minutes earlier had saved a penalty kick, paid the price for fetchinghis water bottle during an Ingolstadt counterattack. Duisburg came back for a 2-1 win.

Thibaut Courtois  catches rapidly fired small balls and even sorts them amid the barrage. The Belgian keeper’s training routine requires him to toss the white balls in the rightbucket and the orange balls in the left one. A post shared by Thibaut Courtois (@thibautcourtois) on Feb 16, 2018 at 6:00am PST

Bayer Leverkusen’s free kick from seven yards, with Hertha Berlin setting up a 10-man wall, results in four shots but no goal. The goalmouth chaos came in Hertha Berlin’s 2-0 Bundesliga win.

On distance and accuracy, and commentator reaction, Yasser Abdullah‘s strike is an Own Goal of the Year contender. The Al Dhafra defender helped Al Jazira on the way to a 3-1 UnitedArab Emirates Arabian Gulf League victory. Own Gol – azo in the UAE today pic.twitter.com/LSsMr45BbQ — Eli (@ElMengem)

USA midfielder Julie Ertz, whose husband Zach Ertz plays for the Philadelphia Eagles, does a superb job behind the mic interviewing players and others at Super BowlOpening Night. Some of the Eagles, incuding Zach and Trey Burton, do well with U.S. women’s national team trivia.