Pick of the week

The last seven days in European football have provided the usual share of drama, records and extraordinary goings on. uefa.com rounds up ten of our favourite stories from this week from landmarks for Roy Makaay and FC Sheriff, to an extraordinary title decider and Guus Hiddink's unbeaten imagination.

Team: Sivasspor 

Sivasspor only entered Turkey's top flight in 2005, but took a big step closer to becoming the first champions from outside Istanbul's big three since Trabzonspor in 1983/84 when they beat that club 3-0 on Saturday. With five games left Sivasspor are a point clear of Beşiktaş JK, and with third-placed Trabzonspor seven back, Bülent Uygun's side look a good bet to at least take a UEFA Champions League berth. "Every day our chances of winning the Süper Lig title are increasing," said Uygun. "A revolution is about to take place in Turkish football."

Player: José Bosingwa

FC Barcelona had failed to score in precisely no games at the Camp Nou this season before Tuesday, with Lionel Messi claiming a decent proportion of those goals. Chelsea FC manager Guus Hiddink was without suspended left-back Ashley Cole for the semi-final first leg and other defensive injuries meant that Alex could not be moved from the centre. Right-back Bosingwa, whose 58 previous minutes on the left came at West Ham United FC on Saturday, switched flanks and played with authority in Barcelona to restrict the UEFA Champions League top scorer Messi to frustrated anonymity.

Quote: Guus Hiddink

"You have to think ahead and I have played Barcelona twice in my head. In my head, I have never lost a game in preparation." The Dutchman explains that he had tried out Bosingwa on the left in his imagination and it had worked. And thanks to the result, Hiddink will concur with an important tenet of Saint Anselm's Ontological Argument, that it is greater to exist in reality than just in thought.

Goal: Aílton Almeida (FC København v AC Horsens)

Picking the ball up just inside the Horsens half, Aílton effortlessly slips past a defender before tumbling as he attempts to round the goalkeeper. Having almost run the ball out of play near the corner of the area, he somehow keeps it in, chips it over the custodian as he springs past him, and then finishes with the outside of his boot from a seemingly impossible angle to clinch a 2-0 win which took FCK two points clear of Brøndby IF at the top of the Danish Superligaen.

Assistant referee: Plamen Georgiev 

Georgiev was running the line in PFC Cherno More Varna's Bulgarian league match with PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv 1936 when the home side's Georgi Iliev went down after a clash of heads. The player lay motionless, so Georgiev sprung into action, ensuring Iliev did not swallow his tongue. "I threw my flag down and went to help him," said Georgiev. "You have to act carefully in that case, but I've done it before and I didn't hesitate." Iliev's injuries were limited to a fractured jaw.

Number: 9 (FC Sheriff)

Sheriff clinched the Moldovan title four games from the end of the season with 3-0 victory at FC Nistru Otaci on Saturday. Perhaps not a surprise, as it is their ninth straight championship, the longest current run in Europe and a step closer to Latvian side FC Skonto's record of 14.

Drama: Aveley FC

Aveley travelled to East Thurrock United FC on Saturday with south-east England's Isthmian League Division One North title on the line – the visitors needing a win to finish top and earn their first-ever promotion to the seventh-tier Premier Division. Five minutes remained when Aveley took the lead, but in the seventh minute of added time, with all substitutes used, goalkeeper James Marrable – who had earlier saved a penalty – was sent off in conceding another. Defender Glen Golby donned the gloves, saved from Max Cornhill, and at the 101-minute mark Aveley's title was confirmed. Even Arsenal FC's title win at Liverpool FC 20 years ago just about pales in comparison.

Landmarks: Roy Makaay and Jon Dahl Tomasson 

Sunday was a day of celebration for Feyenoord's forward line. Roy Makaay claimed a late winner in a 3-2 victory at ADO Den Haag, a fine way to mark his 500th league appearance since his 4 September 1993 debut for BV Vitesse. Tomasson struck the first two, turning a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 lead, and the second was his 100th Eredivise goal, the Dane becoming only the ninth non-Dutchman to reach that mark.

Trip: Interviú Madrid

Interviú won a record third UEFA Futsal Cup on Sunday with a 5-1 win against MFK Viz-Sinara Ekaterinburg. And to do so they embarked on perhaps the longest trip any club has required to compete in a European final – nearly 5,000km to Ekaterinburg, just east of the Urals and geographically in Asia.

...and finally

White Chalk Music record label boss Rio Ferdinand also has a sideline playing football for Manchester United FC and England, and this week revealed a link to that other red-hot soccer nut, Michael Jackson. The American is best known for a visit he paid a few years ago to Exeter City FC, but he also has a career in music. And this week he rang his pop acolyte Ferdinand while the defender was being interviewed by the BBC to launch his new online magazine Five. "I was shaking when I got off the phone," Ferdinand said. "It was a real surprise. I'm hoping to interview him for a later edition and he's invited me to one of his concerts to come backstage and speak to him about it. The first album I ever owned was Bad, so that says it all. I got the album when I was living on the Friary estate in Peckham, who'd have thought that one day I might be meeting the guy?"