Bit of a weird thing for an instructor to say before a match, but bubble football isn't a normal kickabout. Before the game starts, you're helped into an inflated sphere that makes you look like a ...

Weird football projectiles: Pigs, wine, celery, tennis balls, fruit and a Vespa Chris Wright, Toe Poke writer Apr 18, 2017, 06:03 AM ET ...

(Jake Bellucci, Flickr cc) The Current 3:29 The Design Behind ... The Soccer Ball - May 26, 2015 For as long as humans have had legs, they have been kicking around some form of a soccer ball.

The problem is coaches tend to teach based on experience, not science. So FIFA, the world soccer governing body, has commissioned Canadian researchers to examine the mechanics of heading the ball.

SOCCER AID pushes the ante every year and 2024 was no different – with the match ball arriving in a TOTALLY novel way. Moments before kick off a loud roar echoed around Stamford Bridge with b… ...