1) It’s just a half-naked Ruud Gullit playing a half-naked Attilio Lombardo’s head like the bongos among a host of half-naked 1990s Serie A players on the intro credits for Mai Dire Gol. Obviously.
2) Surfing, filmed at 1,000 frames per second. Very smart.
3) Plasticine animation football from 1982? Goal!
4) To tennis and the Charlottesville Men’s Pro Challenger event, where an angry Darian King’s flying racquet rebounds on to a lineswoman and gets him DQd. Taking adversity in far better humour is Tommy Robredo, after spurning five match points against Andy Murray (for a second time).
5) Robotic dolphins? Flying water cars? The future of water sports toys?
6) With his team losing 2-1, a footballer in Brazil carries a canine pitch invader off the field, gets bitten for his troubles, and later goes on to score a pearler to win the game. And now apparently wants to adopt the dog and call it Suárez.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) What do you get if you combine an Erik Lamela-style rabona and some sneaky American football sorcery? Possibly the best onside kick ever from a college game in the US.
2) It would be difficult to beat Santiago Vergini’s effort for Sunderland at Southampton for the title of “most spectacular own goal that actually looks like a deliberate shot at goal”, but Asteras Tripolis’s Goran Rubil may just have topped it with this scorcher when he was playing for Hadjuk Split. Then, of course, there’s this from Indonesia …
3) Zhang Jike. Lucky he won.
4) They play both NRL (Parramatta Eels) and A-League football (Western Sydney Wanderers) at Pirtek Stadium. The security guard who takes down this streaker at the ACL final is obviously more of a rugby league fan.
6) Gotta love the Marymoor Crawl.
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