1) A lot of anger among Albanian fans after this match between Flamurtari and Teuta. Judge for yourselves. Certainly, Flamurtari finally did win, but only after Teuta had all but put the ball in his own goal after giving their opponents more opportunities than is polite to score. Not a patch on this game from Indonesia, however, where both PSS Sleman and PSIS Semarang attempt to not win a match, plus it stirs memories of the 1994 Shell Caribbean Cup.
2) Amelia Kerr, just 14 years old, shows extraordinary talent and confidence in her leg-spinning, taking three for 19 in four overs at the New Zealand domestic T20 final, where her side, Wellington, won the game. Captain Sophie Devine notes: “She’s unbelievable. Thinking back to that age, I would’ve been crapping my pants.”
3) Brazil’s Wallace takes time-wasting to new, surreal levels during an Under-20 match against Uruguay. But wait, are Chelsea’s stewards at it too? And it never gets old reshowing what this goalie is up to. After some impressively slow walking about and clock-counting down in the Young Matildas v China match, the Aussies were not happy. These players meanwhile decide to deal with the miscreant themselves. Here’s the inevitable Fifa 14 glitch time-waster and one for the old-school, how to do it in Pele’s World Tournament Soccer for the Mega Drive. Finally, a warning kids, don’t try this at home – you might get caught out as Peru’s Juan ‘Chiquito’ Flores was here.
4) Is the Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao fight any closer? The pair certainly seemed to be reasonably happy discussing something at a recent Miami Heat game.
5) There’s some good old ice hockey fighting action below, but here’s some silky skills from Yugra Khanty-Mansiysk’s Nikita Gusev, pulling off a mighty trick-shot penalty.
6) Sublime to ridiculous corner: Victor Curto bangs in a monster volley for Eupen against RC Mechelen and there’s some indoor acrobatics from Ivan Klasnic but elsewhere Ukrainian Volodymyr Kozlenko was banned for using his mobile phone during a friendly in Kiev and then the mighty Marshawn Lynch spends a Super Bowl media day repeating the same answer over and over again.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) Winning the internet by a country mile this week: seagull is hit by ball at the Big Bash, the Melbourne Stars’ Rob Quiney makes the universally-acknowledged sign for “perhaps we should shoot it?”, only for seagull to recover. And come back for Quiney.
2) Only just beaten into second place by the super seagull, Mark Cavendish asks the question no journalist ever wants to hear. Watch again and enjoy Michal Kwiatkowski to his right visibly trying not to wet himself laughing. NSFW due to swear at the very start.
3) Three injuries from one ball. The first two are painful, but watch out for the third at the bowler’s end. You want more? Crikey, all right but this is really is hard to watch: slo-mo, first-person shooter style footage of a crash at stage four of the Tour Down Under. And finally from Oz, with Australia set to meet South Korea in the Asian Cup final on Sunday, the former have, as always, much to thank Tim Cahill for. Here’s the first of two goals he scored in the quarters to put them through against China – a top-notch bicycle kick.
4) What a week for Classic YouTube, physical pain and now psychological damage. Keep warm, soapy water handy as your eyeballs will need a thorough cleansing after watching a fat man dance with a bear. Wait. there’s more, here’s another one fielding.
5) Why you are all shandy-drinking Poms and Aussies are proper men. Apparently. Oh, and hold on. Why you are all tea-drinking, cricket-playing limeys and the US has real men doing real sport. With axes and chainsaws. Oh.
6) With the NHL’s third highest ever total of penalty minutes, Tie Domi, was well-known as an enforcer. He liked a fight too, as this compilation, set to suitably apocalyptic heavy metal displays. Be nice to see one of these soundtracked to something different for once? How about a spot of Pastel Vespa instead? Anyway, it turns out his son actually has more subtle puck skills.
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