Plzeň, Thrills and Bellyaches Viktoria Plzeň 4-1 Viktoria Zizkov (23:10:11) The last match of the 2011 EFW Oktoberfest and the chance to out with a bang. As we were based in Prague we could have opened our city maps and headed down Easy Street to Slavia Prague, but where is the thrill in that? Especially as Slavia's ground was sold to me as the Czech equivalent of Southampton's St Mary's Stadium

Brno Boycott Blues Sparta Praha B 2-2 Zbrojovka Brno (22:10:11) Day 3 of the Oktoberfest and the EFWers are split between those who fancy staying a lie-in and those who are keen for a bit of Czech Division Two action. Britski Belasi's Dan Richardson was in the latter group.... A reality of having ‘B' teams in the league pyramid is that with one relegation you can find yourself playing your

Right, we know Gossip Wednesday takes place tomorrow but this was just too difficult to pass up! Every football club needs to do Oktoberfest, like Bayern Munich (bitte! / pleeease). Forget all those gala nights and red carpets (here's looking at you, Man United) just arrive in your finest Bavarian suits and dresses- like Thomas Mueller and his wife, Lisa, above - and you're all bloody well good to go!

Schalke fans might want to skip this. Everybody else, who has seen enough of Bayern players in Lederhosen and WAGs in Dirndls, can skip this as well.

It's Oktoberfest time in Munich again and Bayern paid a visit. As they do every year. And either Bayern are already operating on a level, where a 0-0 draw away at Hoffenheim equals a horrible defeat, or they really would have rather spend their day someplace else.

Every Wednesday, we round up some of the funny and interesting stories from the world of football! Today, read about Neymar's love trials, Drogba's Oktoberfest & the Van der Vaarts.

Now now, don't be hatin' yet! We know many girls come to this site looking for Neymar and can't get enough of the Santos boy wonder.

Old friends link up at Oktoberfest. The weirdness.

Where the white women at?

Let's see what you got, people.

By Chris Wright

Ivory Coast teammates Didier Drogba and Steve Gohouri donned thier lederhosen and flew out to Munich on Sunday afternoon to sample a wee smidge of the Oktoberfest festivities currently engulfing the city and, by all accounts, had a gay old time though not quite as gay as a member of the German press would have it.

Die Wiesn, das legendäre Oktoberfest, das hauptsächlich im September stattfindet, ist schon wieder im vollem Gange. Für uns in München bedeutet das 3 Fussballwochenenden Ausnahmezustand, eine volle Stadt und Fans, die es nicht ertragen können, wenn Münchner Vereine TSV 1860 München oder der FC Bayern München ihre Wiesn-Heimspiele verlieren.

Die Wiesn, das legendäre Oktoberfest, das hauptsächlich im September stattfindet, ist schon wieder im vollem Gange. Für uns in München bedeutet das 3 Fussballwochenenden Ausnahmezustand, eine volle Stadt und Fans, die es nicht ertragen können, wenn Münchner Vereine TSV 1860 München oder der FC Bayern München ihre Wiesn-Heimspiele verlieren.

By Chris Wright

Around this time every year, the Bayern Munich squad celebrate the onset of Oktoberfest by talcing up and slithering into their lederhosen for a traditional Paulaner photo shoot here are the best snaps from this year's, which took place at the club's training ground yesterday.

Ah yes, if it isn't the guys of Bayern Munich in their traditional Bavarian costumes! On a wet, rainy Monday yesterday, Thomas Mueller, Arjen Robben, Manuel Neuer, Philipp Lahm and co' arrived at the training ground for the club's annual photo shoot with a beer company.

By Kirsten Schlewitz / Senior West Coast Beer and Aston Villa Correspondent


So fans of soccer in America, do you know what Fox Soccer would like to show you on Saturday? Blackburn – Arsenal is the early match, followed by Aston Villa – Newcastle. I'm a Villa fan, and I'm still not pleased by this offering.

By Darshan Joshi

Even stars die, eventually. There hasn't been an observed supernova in our Milky Way for over four hundred years (Galileo hadn't even seen the many moons of Jupiter, or confirmed that the Sun was the heart of the solar system when this had occurred), but that such timeless galactic fixtures can perish so vigorously only serves to epitomise the fleeting nature of everything associated with our universe.