After a week away, Dave’s Football Shorts are back! In stories you might have missed last week, a legend is linked to French football, comedians are fined, South America is mental, and the rest of the lesser reported stories!

Games suspended due to smells, Fenerbahce fans banned, players lying about their age, and much more in this week’s Football Shorts!

The Group D rivals battle to a hard-fought draw in Donetsk.

Adam continues our preview of Group D and now looks at England’s likely challengers for top spot, France.

As part of our trip to the Emirates stadium we were invited to the press conference where Indesit explained their intentions. Here’s our analysis, as we cut through the PR talk and see what was really said.

Indesit and We Are Social kindly invited our boys Rik and Steve to the Emirates Cup – they took part in a tournament, were part of a press conference and had VIP seats for rhe games!
Read about their top,top weekend here.

In another joyful guest article, Andrew Gibney of the wonderful Gibfootballshow shares his expertise on Ligue 1 and the relegation battle that is making a lot of Frenchmen look up for a fight, for once.