Finn Surman thinks that blocking shots is nice? Never was a truer word spoken at a time when his 29 blocks this MLS season aren’t far off doubling the second-most prolific blocker in the division.

Go tell the children, there will be no Europa League title for Chris Wood. His penalty had given Nottingham Forest a 1-0 advantage after the first leg at home but they barely even turned up for the second leg.

Imagine thinking a few months ago that Chris Wood would be in the middle of a European semi-final right now. Not only was he working his way back from knee surgery at the time but Nottingham Forest, largely in his absence, were tearing through managers at rapid pace…

When Silkeborg go well, it usually means that Callum McCowatt has gone well... and Callum McCowatt has been going very well lately.

Last week the story was about Chris Wood’s return, this week it was all about the action. Nottingham Forest had two games in quick succession with the potential to massively alter the course of their season.

173 days after he last took the pitch in a 3-0 loss against Chelsea that marked Ange Postecoglou’s final game in charge of the team, Chris Wood made his return for Nottingham Forest.

23 November 2024 and 25 March 2026… those were the two games of competitive football played by Malia Steinmetz on either side of busting her ACL, returning to action in a very convincing Danish Cup semi-final first leg win against Kolding

Nottingham Forest had put a mid-April target out there for Chris Wood’s return to the first team so nobody was expecting him to appear in the starting line-up for the U21s this soon. And yet there he was.

Celtic Park was the destination for Motherwell, where they faced arguably the biggest game of their season thus far. If they could repeat the 2-0 win they served up to Celtic a couple of months ago then…

Ben Waine loves a dose of cup footy. Always has. But none of his past exploits compare to what he did over the past week.

Ben Old is a left-back now, he’s even admitting it himself. Not a winger playing out of position but a genuine converted option having played nothing but fullback for the past two months.

The bad news for Motherwell is that if they want to win a trophy this season, it’s going to have to be the Premiership. The good news is that they might genuinely be in the league title race after another week of very helpful results.

In a season where Hearts are seriously threatening to bust up the Old Firm hold on the title, it’s Motherwell that have become the darlings of Scottish football and Elijah Just has been a big part of that.

After waiting more than half of the Championship season for a proper Flying Kiwi head to head (Crocombe vs Bindon last week), we got another one straight afterwards (Crocombe vs Cacace). Millwall versus Wrexham, two clubs challenging for playoff places.

It wasn’t going to do anyone any good for Clegg to spend another year sitting on the bench. Hence she’s left. Hence she’s signed a two-year contract with Vittsjö GIK in Sweden.

Max Crocombe was a few weeks shy of his 30th birthday when he debuted in League One with Burton Albion. Now he’s 32 years old and starting games for a Millwall team pushing for promotion from the Championship and he’s about to go to a World Cup later in the year.

For almost two months we didn’t see Libby Cacace in action at all. Even before that he was in and out of the team amidst recurring muscle injuries – the first time in his entire career that he’d been stuck with injuries, probably in part due to his lack of a preseason.

There aren’t many All Whites (or Football Ferns either, for that matter), who can claim to have had a better 2025 than Elijah Just. In fact, you can stretch that out to the last 18 months... and there’s no end in sight.

Less than six minutes into the match and Tyler Bindon had scored his first Championship goal. Leapt about three metres into the air to whallop home a header from a corner kick. Superb stuff.