In the Champions League, away teams are usually invited to train at the host's stadium the day before a match. Prior to Borussia Dortmund's exceptionally dull goalless draw at Malaga's La Rosaleda Stadium on Wednesday, BVB midfielder Mario Götze showed his appreciation for this hospitality by peeing on the ground beside the pitch.

Only in certain types of films are Germans accustomed to being filmed while they relieve themselves, so the BVB star can't have been impressed when he turned round to see a camera catching him mid-flow.

If Götze wants to up the public urination stakes, he should take a leak look at fellow countryman Jens Lehmann, who once left the goal unattended to pull the same stunt during an actual Champions League game...

As Galatasaray prepare to play in their first Champions League quarter-final since 2001, tempers are beginning to flare in Turkey. When pundits on Turkish TV channel Beyaz suggested that Real Madrid would win Wednesday evening's match at the Bernabeu, a small contingent of Gala fans reacted in a completely reasonable and rational manner by attacking the TV station.

According to Haber Turk, around 35 to 40 fans turned up at 2am on Tuesday morning brandishing sticks and stones (perhaps intended to break bones, as names will never hurt them).

Security footage from Beyaz TV — which, somewhat ironically in light of the team being discussed, translates to "White TV" — shows the confrontation was pretty violent, but the assailants were unable to get past the fearless security guards. According to the report, one TV station employee was seriously injured and had to be taken to hospital.

See video of the aftermath below...

San Lorenzo may be the chosen club of the leader of the Catholic Church, but a police homicide investigation may soon prove that one of their players has not been acting in a saintly manner.

Shortly after San Lorenzo's 1-0 home loss to Newell's Old Boys on Sunday night, Argentinean police sealed off their Pedro Bidegain stadium and arrested goalkeeper Pablo Migliore on the pitch, on suspicion of aiding and abetting a notorious hooligan wanted for homicide. The Guardian have more detail:

Migliore is accused of helping to hide Maximiliano Mazzaro, second in command among the Boca Juniors barras, who allegedly beat Ernesto Cirino, 58, to death in 2011 during a neighbourly dispute. Mazzaro has been on the run for three months and the San Lorenzo captain is suspected of keeping in touch with him throughout that time and helping him abscond.

Migliore was questioned by police on Monday, but any hope that he would sing like a canary for his freedom have been quashed, as the BBC report that

As part of Queens Park Rangers high-risk buy ourselves out of relegation trouble by paying too much for players strategy, Chris Samba arrived at Loftus Road in the January window. His former side Anzhi Makhachkala said they were "out of their minds" to pay his £12.5m ($18 million) transfer fee, while many others question the logic of giving £100,000 ($150,000) to a 28-year-old of his caliber every single week for four-and-a-half years.

In QPR's 3-2 defeat at Fulham on Monday, Samba was at fault for the first two goals and played an error-strewn game that did not exactly justify his weekly wage. To his credit, the Congo national team player took to twitter to apologize...

I'm really sorry I let the side down,really upset with my 1st half performance I can't say sorry enough to all the supporters,won't give up

— Samba Christopher (@cs4christsamba1) April 1, 2013

Samba then appeared to spend the rest of the evening on the social networking site defending his move to London, arguing that

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The Nottingham Forest trophy cabinet may not have had an update in the past few decades, but under legendary manager Brian Clough they won two European Cups, a league title, four League Cups and plenty more. One man who watch watched Forest through all their glorious highs and Gary Megson-led lows is Stuart Astill, who has witnessed every single one of his team's games in the past 40 years.

Up until Monday, Astill had watched 1,786 consecutive Forest games, spending thousands on tickets and travel by trains, planes and automobiles across the UK and Europe. He last missed a game in 1973 when he was an usher at a wedding and has seen his beloved side play a staggering 2,534 times since 1956.

A foot infection couldn't keep him from seeing Saturday's 2-2 draw with Brighton, but sadly it ruled him out from a trip to Burnley on Monday. The Mirror quoted Astill before the 1-1 draw at Turf Moor:

Stuart, a retired British rail engineer, of Sandiacre, Derbys, said: “I’ll miss the atmosphere.

"I

This clip is a few months old, but it's never too late to give some instruction on the art of free kick stupidity.

When SC Fürstenfeldbruck conceded a dead ball to SC Weiz in an Austrian lower league match, a chap named Kevin Steiner stepped up with the hope of getting his name on the scoresheet. In front of him, for no apparent reason, was a teammate and an opponent kneeling down.

Were the players attempting to completely block the goalkeeper's view of the ball? Or trying to prevent a low driving shot? Perhaps they were planning an elaborate original trick to be preserved for the ages and celebrated on YouTube? Maybe they were just pooped from all that standing up, jogging around and kicking.

It turns out they were just making it extremely easy for one of them to get hit very hard in the face.

União Barbarense currently find themselves in the relegation zone of the Campeonato Paulista first phase, and have apparently resorted to using underhand tactics to gain an advantage.

The Sao Paolo side defeated tenth-place rivals Linense 3-2 on the road on Thursday, but in the second half they fielded two players wearing the same shirt number in a ruse intended to confuse their opponents.

Midfielder Britto wore the number seven shirt in the first half of the game, but emerged in the second 45 wearing number five, the same as defender Rafael Silva. After 26 minutes of the half, the referee noticed the naughty number game and issued a yellow card along with an order to change the shirt. Reuters reports:

"They were on the attack and we used all the tricks we could to keep them at bay," Britto, who finished the match wearing number 17, told the Sportv cable channel after Barbarense's 3-2 win. "It was a strategy and it worked."

Britto seems to be confusing the concept of a "strategy" with

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In February, Robbie Rogers revealed his sexuality on his personal blog, choosing to simultaneously "step away" from the game. The former Columbus Crew and Leeds Utd winger has now given his first set of interviews, including a piece published in The Guardian on Friday. In it, the 25-year-old explains the motivations behind his decision, his frustrations and the conflicting emotions he felt from a young age:

"I started feeling very different and it was a case of, 'All right, I'm good at football and I get attention from girls. Why don't I want that? What's wrong with me?' I realised I was gay when I was 14 or 15. I was like, 'I want to play football. But there are no gay footballers. What am I going to do?'

The former USMNT star felt that coming out was not compatible was a professional football career:

"In football it's obviously impossible to come out – because no-one has done it. No one. It's crazy and sad. I thought: 'Why don't I step away and deal with this and my family and be