Remember when utility Stoke City forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting signed with nefarious oil barrens Paris Saint-Germain, the club with a literal bottomless pit of money, on a free transfer? Do you remember when everybody responded to the move with the same confused expression and mouthing of 'errrr, what?' in unison?
Well, good news! We now know why he was signed. It was for moments like this, when, during PSG's match to seal the title with eight games remaining, he managed to clear a certain goal off the Strasbourg line just to make Ligue 1 slightly more interesting for all eight football fans outside of France that are still following it:
https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1114975074543652868
https://twitter.com/fems_world/status/1114975111239614464
https://twitter.com/hecvideo/status/1114974636037562368
What a hero. After scoring the opening goal of the game as well. This is Eric Choupo-Moting's world and we're all just living in it.
Anyway, here is Kylian Mbappe's reaction to his teammate's incredible commitment to the banter:
https://twitter.com/GFFN/status/1114975318232711168
And if you needed any convincing that what you have just seen is the worst miss in football history, worse even than Nwankwo Kanu's left foot shocker for West Brom against Middlesbrough in 2005, then I leave you with this image:
https://twitter.com/ErikNiva/status/1114975700317024258
PSG are 2-1 down at the time of writing. Will they come back in the second half to seal yet another title? I mean yeah. Probably. Unless Maxim Choupo-Moting can keep them out for the final 45 minutes.
It’s been described as ‘The Voice’ for football A European football team has turned to launching a competition to sign an amateur footballer after being banned from making transfers. It’s the nightmare scenario for many clubs, being banned from signing any players which can be a death sentence for many clubs in modern football. While […]
They’ve enjoyed five campaigns in Europe’s most prestigious competition While not one of the competition’s heavy hitters, Champions League nights at St James park just make sense, and Newcastle have been enjoying a European resurgence in recent years. The Magpies face Barcelona in the second leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie, as […]
He responded almost immediately A Senegalese Premier League star has responded after his nation was stripped of the Afcon title they won at the start of the year. On Tuesday evening (17 March), Senegal was stripped of the Afcon trophy and Morocco was awarded the title by an appeal board of the governing body CAF. […]