A little over a decade ago, South Melbourne FC took part in the FIFA Club World Championship as champions of Oceania, trying their luck in a group containing England's Manchester United, Brazil's Vasco da Gama and Mexico's Nexaca. South Melbourne could then claim to be Australia's most successful club, winners of four National Soccer League titles.

Yes indeed. That's Cesc Fabregas in his panties. And Victor Valdes on the toilet? Images via totalbarca.

Even if you'd managed to remain unaware that Barcelona had flown to Japan to take part in the FIFA World Club Championship, the news that David Villa broke his leg in the semi-final vs.

Both sides of the Clásico Regiomontano experienced different emotions during the weekend. CONCACAF club champions Monterrey were knocked out of the FIFA Club World Cup by Japanese champions Kashiwa Reysol, 4-3 on penalties after the match finished 1-1 at the end of 120 minutes. Reysol took the lead through their star midfielder Leander Domingues, but the Rayados equalized through Humberto Suazo five minutes later.

CONCACAF champions Monterrey landed in Japan this morning in advance of their match against the winner of Japanese champions Kashiwa Reysol and Oceania champions Auckland City. Monterrey have the slightly easier path to the finals as they would face South American champions Santos in the semifinal instead of Barcelona, but of course they would have to get past the survivor of the preliminary round first.

At 40 years of age Pep Guardiola has already implemented himself into one of the greatest coaches in modern history. 29 years his senior Sir Alex Ferguson, the man who sat in the opposite dugout at Wembley on Saturday night, conceded his Manchester United team were inferior to the young pretender's Blaugrana who put on arguably, the most beautiful 90 minutes of football in a European Cup Final.

Samuel Eto'o finished off what has been a brilliant year for him by scoring two goals as Inter beat Palermo 3-1 to win the Italian Cup final.

Eto'o's 36th goal of the season gave Inter the lead in the 26th minute. Thiago Motta won the ball while being brought down by Hernandez; Sneijder picked it up and, seeing Eto'o's run, slid a delightful pass in behind the defence for Samuel to latch onto, bear down on goal and sidefoot past Sirigu into the far corner.