It’s been a trying few days for the Spanish legend.

In a bizarre story, Spanish magazine “Interviu” this week claimed that Raul (along with Ronaldo and Guti) was a contact for Spanish drug-lord Laurentino Sanchez Serrano. The story was picked up by Bild, who ran with the headline “Is Raul under pressure as a contact for a drug boss?”

Raul has refused to comment on the scandal, but the striker has managed to rewrite his own headlines by scoring a solo golazo in Schalke training.

After controlling the ball with his right peg on the right hand side of the box, Raul proceeded to dance around the goalie, then a defender, before finishing his slalom with a cheeky backheel.

Watch Raul’s solo special at Schalke training here.

“It was a red card. It was high. Big decisions against us seem to get forgotten too easily. 

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Wigan were left fuming this week after their 3-1 loss at Tottenham.

Aside from recording yet another result that left them fighting for Premier League survival, the Latics were left aggreived that Spurs left-back Benoit Assou-Ekotto stayed on the pitch after a terrible tackle on Franco Di Santo.

The incident arrive in the final stages of the match.

With Assou-Ekotto put under pressure to clear his lines in his left-back position, the Frenchman-with-the-afro delivered an shin-splitting stamp on Di Santo that immediately forced the Argentinean off injured.

Despite the linesman and referee Probert appearing to have a great view of the incident, Assou-Ekotto failed to received as much as a booking for the foul. Moreover, it has since been confirmed by the FA that ref Probert had seen the incident, and thus the defender will face no further sanction on the basis of video evidence.

On Thursday, Franco Di Santo posted a picture of his shin on his Facebook page. The gruesome picture can be seen below the fold.

Watch footage of Assou-Ekotto’s foul on Di Santo here.

The 2012 UEFA Futsal Championships are currently taking place in Croatia, but the competition has not been reserved solely for the pitch.

Footage emerged on Thursday of Portuguese star Ricardinho taking on Slovenian trickster Rok Grzelj in a skill-off on the sixth floor of a Croatian hotel.

Standing in the corridor outside the elevators, the two stars showed off a variety of tricks and flicks that proved neither player needs a lot of space within which they can work their magic.

Watch the Ricardinho-Grzelj skills battle here.

After the harrowing events in Egypt on Wednesday, football has now witnessed yet another appalling piece of fan violence in Indonesia.

Persija Jakarta played host to Persiwa Wamena on Friday in the Indonesian Super League, and the match was interrupted in the 75th minute when a handful of Persiwa Wamena fans sidestepped idol security and rioted after their side had conceded a penalty for a handball.

Although only small in number, the pocket of Persiwa fans caused havoc as they made their way onto the field and headed straight for the Persija players and the match officials. Then, in a worrying escalation, dozens more Wamena supporters piled onto the pitch and a full scale riot was underway.

Soon the local Persija Jakarta were also running for cover as several fires were set alight on the field.

According to local reports, it took the security five minutes to quell the riots at the match. Amazingly the match then resumed and Persija went on to claim a 2-1 win.

Watch the Persiwa Wamena fans riots here.

(Longer footage, albeit in a much grainier quality, can be seen here.)

Rodriguez was the star man on Tuesday night as Burnley beat Nottingham Forest 2-0 in the Championship, heading both goals to pile on more misery for the struggling former European Cup winners.

But, in between his two goals, Rodriguez took one of the worst penalties you have ever seen which has been featured on websites all across the globe.

Jay Rodriguez’s ridiculously rubbish penalty miss can be seen here.

We join the action seven minutes before the break with the score at 0-0. Al Ittihad launch an attack from their own half with a through ball seemingly playing striker Fabrice Ondama (pictured) in on goal from deep.

Defender Omar Al-Ghamdi is the wrong side of Ondama and appears to bring down the striker who had a clear run on goal. The fact the Al Shabab defender is already on a yellow card means referee Fahad Al Mirdasi has what looks to be a simple decision to send him off.

On closer inspection however you will likely be outraged. Ondama holds on to Al-Ghamdi and pulls down his opponent as he takes a dive. Amazing stuff!

In proof that cheats don’t always prosper, Ondama and his Al Ittihad team failed to win the match, despite their man advantage. Al Shabab claiming a 2-0 win to cement their place in second in the table.

Footage of Fabrice Ondama’s crazy cheating can be seen here.