1) As pre-season draws to a close, we re-visit some of the best goals. First up: 37 years young, James Coppinger is still doing bits at Doncaster. Brighton’s new signing, Yves Bissouma does not care about your wall, Sammy Ameobi [OBE] cracks one off the bar Yeboah-style, Arsenal’s Emile Smith Rowe takes aim from 25 yards against Atlético, Arthur endears himself to Barcelona fans with a top-bin curler, Celta Vigo’s Pione Sisto whacks this beauty into Southampton’s net and here’s every angle of Xherdan Shaqiri’s bicycle kick against Manchester United, who scored this goal in reply – hat-tip Andreas Pereira.
2) Benoît Paire smashes just the three rackets in a tennis tantrum for the ages at the Citi Open. At least fans got some interesting souvenirs. Meltdowns are nothing new in tennis, mind. Here are five of the best – though our favourite is still Richie Tenenbaum’s, and we don’t care that he’s fictitious.
3) An absolutely outrageous buzzer-beater from the WNBA Finals back in 1999: Teresa Weatherspoon forces a game three when all hope looked lost for the New York Liberty.
4) Do you remember when Action Man crossed over into football? Here you go then.
5) Drama at the World Snail Racing Championships. There was also drama at the Anniversary Games recently when race leader Fantu Worku stopped running with 200m to go of the 3000m. It was reminiscent of this bizarre finish in the CIS men’s 3000m in 2017.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) “If he told you to jump off a cliff, would you do it?!”
2) If that looked painful, Rick Koekoek shows us all how it’s done on two wheels.
3) In an ODI match that went down to the final ball, Mahmudullah didn’t help Bangladesh’s cause against the West Indies with this comedy run out.
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