1) It’s time to give the goalline clearance some love after this belter from Russia, in which FC Rostov’s Evgeny Chernov makes one remarkable save and then somehow throws himself backwards and twists his body to avoid handballing on the line to make another more extraordinary one. David Luiz might not be performing heroics for Arsenal at the moment, but he has done for Brazil over the years. How did he get this over the bar? If it’s athleticism you appreciate most in a last-ditch clearance, see Kyle Walker and Sven van Beek. Meanwhile, this defender put so much effort into his clearance that he broke the goal in Brazil. Oh, and brilliant goalline clearances are not always performed by humans, either, as this stray dog showed in a third-tier match in Argentina.
2) College football is properly back with a … well, just watch this.
OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD pic.twitter.com/hRJHaBlX61
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) September 1, 2019
3) Rafael Nadal couldn’t get the ball over the net in his fourth-round match against Marin Cilic at the US Open … so he just went round it with an absurd winner. It was brilliant, and even had Tiger Woods fist-pumping in the crowd … but better than Novak Djokovic’s in 2014? You decide.
4) Bone-crunching NRL tackle alert! Cameron Munster is monstered by Jorge Taufua.
5) Some goals of the week, featuring a couple of bangers here and here and a straight-from-kick-off beauty from Charlton Under-18s’ Aaron Henry.
😱 STUNNER!
— Charlton Athletic FC (@CAFCofficial) August 30, 2019
The Addicks' U18s beat @ManUtd
4-2 in a friendly last week...
Oh, and Aaron Henry casually scored direct from kick-off... #cafc pic.twitter.com/S2aCl3pI6Y
6) Don’t grow marijuana on rooftops along the Vuelta route.
Our favourites from below the line last week
1) Bury at Bramall Lane in 1902.
2) Welcome to Psicobloc, the most extreme sport you’ve never heard of.
Spotters’ badges: vastariner, CarlosDaaanger, BlackCaeser.
