BEING BELGIAN: It's a blast from the past!

Hoverboarding into Sporting Charleroi’s Mambourg stadium this Saturday, Charles le Roi half expected to see Marty McFly and Doc Brown discreetly tucking into their plastic cups of Jup. Having played gameweeks 27 & 28, the Jupiler Pro League dusted down its flux capacitor and returned us to the long forgotten gameweek 26. Those with access to the Grays Sports Almanac from Back to the Future II will have put down serious money on Standard beating Westerlo 1-0 and Gent drawing 1 -1 with Bruges, games that had beaten the snow in a preposterously cold February weekend. Fast forward to March. With Standard having already played it was for the second week running a mammoth opportunity for two of their rivals to put daylight between them in the race for the play-offs. Kortrijk did the business, defeating bottom club Roeselare 2 – 0 but Zulte Waregem stuttered to a 1 -1 draw at Germinal Beerschot, leaving Standard still in the race. They won’t catch Anderlecht though. As the DeLorean fired up and roared off up the E19 towards gameweek 29, Anderlecht had extended their lead at the top to 12 points. In a professional performance, Mattias Suarez and Tom de Sutter (neither born when Huey Lewis and the News composed Back in Time) scored to accelerate Anderlecht towards their 30th League crown.

Results below, table here.

Cercle Brugge 4 – 0 Lokeren
Charleroi 0 - 2 Anderlecht
Germinal Beerschot 1 – 1 Zulte Waregem
KV Mechelen 2 – 1 Racing Genk
Roeselare 0 – 2 Kortrijk

Comments

[Charles le Roi]

the flux capacitor nearly malfunctioned this evening when asked to go all the way back to gameweek 24 for Charleroi v Lokeren. 4 - 1 to Charleroi (not to be confused with Charles le Roi), who are as good as saved.

[Teddy]

Back to the Future II -- a rare sequel to rival the first installment in a trilogy (or quadrilogy/ etc). Up there with Godfather II, Superman II, Terminator II, Analyse THAT and of course let's not forget Wrath of Khan...

Go Club Brugge (funny how they keep misspelling their own name though)

[Charles le Roi]

Being (nearly) Belgian I would have to say that Phostlite beats dilithium crystal into second place! Discovered by Professor Decimus Phostle, exposure to this element causes living things to grow rapidly to enormous size. That's what's responsible for Romelu Lukaku then....!

[dupin]

Ah yes, the flux capacitor! A strong rival to the dilithium crystal for the fabbest bit of cinematic pseudo-science.