Weird Week in Football: Snow, subs, and slides

Every Monday, theScore will highlight the most outlandish moments from the wacky, sometimes daft, and perennially entertaining world of football. Here's what made us smile - or cringe - on the pitch this past week.

There was no shortage of entertainment during a week of football littered with a congested schedule of midweek tilts, and with the on-pitch action was plenty of the bizarre and bonkers off of it.

Salt Lake Snow City

Attn: MLS Disciplinary Committee re. Real Salt Lake MF Luis Silva.

Lorient gets Memphis, hook, line, and sinker

Ahead of Saturday's Ligue 1 clash between host Lyon and lowly Lorient, OL winger Memphis Depay thought it wise to take to Twitter to troll its Breton foes.

Related: Memphis Depay trolls Lorient on Twitter before Saturday's match

Karma arrived just in time to see Les Merluns shock Les Gones 4-1 thanks to a Benjamin Moukandjo brace, and an intrepid Lorient social media staffer got the last laugh.

"Watch out for the bones."

That's double for Lorient on Lyon this season, and naturally, it inspired other sides who got results at the Park OL, Guingamp and Bordeaux, to throw a few more tires on the burning pile.

Five fans of Twente bagged

Thursday's Eredivisie clash between FC Twente and PSV got weird 15 minutes from time when the PA speakers announced that police requested all fans at the Grolsch Veste stadium leave their seats immediately.

Turns out, five people were arrested in and around the stadium as part of a drug trafficking sting, with three apprehended in the home supporters' Block P section of Twente's ground.

Miscommunication saw supporters throughout the stadium head for the exits when the evacuation orders were only intended for Block P, and it would appear that those who eventually returned to their seats were as mystified as Twente's brass.

"It came as a surprise," Twente general manager Jan van Halst told Fox Sports. "We received a message that the police will do an evacuation, but it did not say why, how, and what."

Dries Mertens: Impact sub

Without question, Goal of the Week honours go to Napoli's Mertens, who scored 11 seconds after coming on for Arkadiusz Milik during Wednesday's Coppa Italia clash with Juventus.

Mario B's knees

"Do you have anything to declare, Mr. Balotelli?"

It seems Balotelli's visit north was for both pleasure and business, as his brace against Lille gave him 13 on the campaign - one short of a career-best league output of 14 with AC Milan in 2013-14 - keeping Nice in a tight Ligue 1 title race.