There are myriad ways to kill a day at work: take up smoking, take up working, play Stick Cricket, take an hilarious running jump out of a 43rd-floor (not counting the mezzanine) window. But YouTube is still trumping them all, particularly for sports fans. So every Thursday we'll be wasting as much time as is humanly possible to bring you our favourite clips. Then you can add your own, and everyone will go home happy. And having done no work.
1) Time for another dribble down memory lane, this time with Garrincha opening his box of tricks. This is the man voted the second best player in Brazilian history after Pele and the eighth best of all time by Fifa. We'd like to see Cristiano Ronaldo do a stepover with a deformed spine, his right leg bent inwards and his left leg six centimetres shorter and curved outwards. I don't think so. When you watch this you can see why he was sometimes called Alegria do Povo ("Joy of the People"). See how much he meant by watching his Diana-esque funeral in 1983.
2) With more poking than Facebook during the office lunch break, the spat between Pakistani umpire Shakoor Rana and England captain Mike Gatting in 1987 in the second Test at Faisalabad created such a rift between the two cricketing nations that England did not tour there again for 13 years. Gatting took umbrage with Rana's suggestion that he was cheating by moving a fielder behind the bowler's arm. Here is Rana himself in 2000 - proud as punch about standing up to the England captain.
3) The press eh? Soulless vultures? Power without responsibility? That's certainly how the Oklahoma State American football coach, Mike Gundy was feeling when he embarked on his heart-felt attack on a Daily Oklahoman columnist for criticising one of his "boys". Gundy felt the need to hit back on behalf of a player who "does things right" - his quarterback, Bobby Reid.
4) Staying in the US this week, the San Diego Padres' Milton Bradley was hopping mad after striking out against the Colorado Rockies and later took his anger out on the first-base coach. Sadly for Bradley, he got injured in the ensuing mêlée and was, ironically, just hopping. Revenge is not the answer, Milton.
5) In a brilliant end to the lively inaugural World Twenty20 tournament, India's Joginda Sharma bowled the final, nerve-shattering, over with Pakistan needing 13 to win the tournament.
Our favourites from last week's blog:
1) Can't see John Terry getting into this but you never know. Here is Tzofit Grant, the wife of new Chelsea manager drinking her own urine on Israeli TV. Exponents of urine therapy like to point out that the good book tells us to, drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. (Proverbs 5:15). Mmm. Still not convinced.
2) Riled by Floyd Mayweather's antics and playing up to the partisan Manchester crowd, Ricky Hatton might need to put half his fight purse aside for a swear box. The Sky presenter's apologies are even funnier than the Anglo-Saxon stuff. Meanwhile, here's footloose Floyd getting ready for Dancing with the Stars.
3) A Spurs ball boy lives up to his job description against Anothosis Famagusta - hitting Konstantinos Loumpoutis where it hurts. Success-starved Tottenham fans showed their appreciation for a rare winner at White Hart Lane.
4) Johan Cruyff for Ajax - the best first touch you will ever see. The second touch isn't bad either.
5) Wrangling superstar Zeb Lanham pays a heavy price for his cattle-bothering at the Calgary stampede this year. According to the caption he was "bucked off". And with good reason.
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And finally...the best bits from today's paper
1) Googbye, goodbye. Peter Cook nails football manager-speak in one of his farewell performances.
2) Ireland's Paul O'Connell could go into motivational speaking when his rugby career ends. Warning: this clip contains Irish-grade swearing.
