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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport

Swingers, stingers and Socrates

This bit's getting harder and harder to write every week. You know the drill by now.

1) Has there ever been a cooler footballer than Socrates?. And how on earth did his Brazil 1982 side not win the World Cup?

2) Admire the genius of Roger Federer ... this time in super-slo motion.

3) With another cricket World Cup humiliation looming, relive England's astonishing pummelling at the hands of Sri Lanka in the 1996 quarter-final.

4) Marvel at the best collection of the All Blacks' greatest tries.

5) And Atlético Madrid's Sergio Aguero makes Hoddle and Waddle look like serious musicians.

Five favourites from last week's blog.

1) Is this the greatest try ever? The Barbarians cut the All Blacks to ribbons in 1973.

2) The career of the great boxer Teofilo Stevenson, who turned down $1m to turn pro and fight Ali.

3) Televised sport goes interactive during an extraordinary journey at the hands of Ari Vatanen.

4) Ice hockey's answer to Ronnie Rosenthal's spectacular miss. And the day Wayne Gretzky was given the biggest beating of his career.

5) Diego Maradona: compulsive viewing even in the warm-up. And, while we're here, his Naples portfolio.

Spotter's badges: redredredred, fartinurdirection (hey - great name guy!), roykeane123, dyagetme1, gspm, flynnie.

And finally ... more stuff from The Guardian today

1) The 1969 West Indies tourists being bowled out for 25 ... by Ireland

2) Enjoy the final moments of the 2003 Rugby World Cup once more, when Jonny Wilkinson was in his prime.

3) And see how Harry Redknapp reacts to getting whacked by a ball during an interview at the Pompey training ground (clue: not very well).

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