Away from the elite league and the media spotlight, funny and strange stories happen in football.
Here are the best tidbits you might have missed, about a team with no points, and another looking for the corner flag.
A report by the British newspaper "The Guardian" monitored a group of the most prominent anecdotal stories of unknown teams.
Dover Athletic
Dover Athletic is at the bottom of the National League standings, and it is one of the fifth-tier teams in England, with zero points, despite 42 rounds passed, and has scored 34 goals, but conceded 97 goals, which means that it is on its way to achieving nothing.
The Guardian report indicated that this strange situation resulted from the deduction of 12 points from the team’s balance at the beginning of the league due to penalties from last season, and it has already managed to achieve two wins and 6 draws, which is equivalent to the 12 points deducted, and therefore its score has returned to the beginning: zero points.
The team achieved its first victory last January, and the players' joy was as if they had qualified for the European Champions League, according to what one of the players told the Guardian newspaper.
Dover Athletic can be considered a team that specializes in fiasco. In one match, for example, he was leading 5-2 at Wrexham Hollywood, but ended the match 6-5 in the final minutes.
Scarborough Athletic
The report pointed to the Scarborough Athletic team, which achieved promotion to the Northern National League after 23 years of its fall. With its sporting director, Jonathan Groening, who won the European Champions League in 1999 with Manchester United.
Taunton Town
The Taunton Town team tweeted, "If you have our corner flag you can return it to the club, in order to complete the remaining events for us." The club's highest level reached after 75 years of its founding, and the fan who returned the corner flag was honored with another signed corner flag.
This team was led by coach Michael Maker, 50, a former midfielder for Premier League club Queens Park Rangers, and played his first meeting as a 19-year-old against Manchester City in 1990.
Maker led the Tawoos team in 13 matches this season, but he decided to move to the South League, which he believes suits him more due to his advanced age.
"I have been fortunate to have enjoyed such a long career and to play in all divisions of the football league, except for the second division," he said, adding that he participated in winning league titles, play-off matches and many cups, including the "sausage" cup, which is the name of the Southern League Challenge Cup. .
FC ISL OF MAN
The report noted that teams that travel to play matches on short flights by plane are often criticized, but for the “FC Isle of Man” team, it was necessary because it is located on an island, where the report stated that the exciting thing in this team, which won the match The clincher for the promotion of the Northern Provinces Division is that he played many matches outside his home country, including those in which he receives, due to Covid restrictions and the inability of his opponents to enter the Isle of Man, and this made their achievement more distinguished.