1) The Premier League begins this weekend, so let’s mosey off to Liverpool … and as far away from the Premier League as it’s possible to get. The World in One City tournament, featuring teams representing the different ethnic communities who have made their homes on Merseyside, is now at the semi-final stage, and the Yemen v Somalia quarter was a belter. Here’s the penalty shoot-out in full, and below are the affirming, uplifting scenes when it finished.
Arguably the most pressured moment of the tournament so far. The final penalty miss in the Yemen vs Somali Team game. Wow check the scenes.
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As for the aforementioned Premier League, on Friday night, top-division football returns to Brentford for the first time since 1946-47 – here’s a Pathé report on them, and here’s a Pathé documentary on the side who finished sixth in 1936-37. For balance, here’s a portrait of Arsenal, their opponents, from 1926, and here are Herbert Chapman’s players singing away prior to the 1932 FA Cup final.
2) The great Roy Maurice Keane was 50 on Tuesday, so here’s an extensive but not exhaustive collection of videos showing him being him.
3) The second England v India Test is now under way, more than enough excuse to look back at the 1990 tour. Here’s Graham Gooch’s ridiculous 333 at Lord’s; here’s Kapil Dev, facing Eddie Hemmings with India needing 24 to avoid the follow-on; here’s Sachin Tendulkar, then aged 17, taking a screamer to get rid of Allan Lamb; and here’s Tendulkar’s first Test ton, scored at Old Trafford.
4) Last Saturday night, Ciryl Gane won the UFC men’s interim heavyweight title, stopping an exhausted Derrick Lewis in round three; here’s Manel Kape finishing Ode’ Osbourne with a flying knee and punches; here’s Melissa Gatto dealing with Victoria Leonardo; and here’s Myles Johns knocking Anderson dos Santos silly.
5) On this day in 1948, India beat Great Britain 4-0 to win men’s hockey gold at the London Olympics. Here are highlights of the game, here’s Balbir Singh, its brace-notching hero, looking back, and here’s the real, great story of how it all happened.
6) Finally, a look back at some of Tokyo’s off-pitch highlights: Elaine Thompson-Herah’s gran watches her win 100m gold; Kori Carter and Natasha Hastings react to Sydney McLaughlin’s 400m gold and world record; the power of Kellie Harrington, her neighbourhood watching her win boxing gold and her family reacting to it; Tom Dean’s friends and family watching him win 200m freestyle gold; Dean Boxall celebrating Ariarne Titmus’ 400m freestyle gold; and Yulimar Rojas with the Venezuelan team.
Our favourites from below the line last week
Spotters’ badges: whobroughtoranges, GrahamClayton
1) Rare golfing moments: eagles, albatrosses and holes in one.
2) Allan Moffat avoiding the local traffic during unofficial practice for the 1971 Hardie Ferodo 500.
3) George Best was even better you think.
