1) You'll all be aware of Richard Keys' foray into women's rights recently but he really outdid himself when he introduced Ulrika Jonsson's debut on TV-AM. Richard can hardly believe his luck as he flicks through his copy of How To Alienate Any Woman You Meet before delivering some killer lines straight from the school disco. It wasn't the last time he got flustered around the Nordic countries either. RTE encapsulated Keys and Andy Gray's contribution to football in this zinger of a clip, while the latter is known for getting pretty much every call he makes right. And while we're at it, here's a shot the deadly duo would probably have you believe was impossible for a woman to make.
2) Set your squirmometer to dangerously high as you watch this deliciously awkward illustration of the dangers of gossiping. There's nothing more embarrassing than being caught tittle-tattling, Kim Clijsters tells a crimson Todd Woodbridge during a post-match interview that she's seen a text he sent to a friend in which he suggests the Belgian might be pregnant. Now to comedy of a more intentional variety. Lurking deep inside every world class tennis player is a frustrated showman and no one proves that more than Novak Djokovic. Ever the entertainer, here he is gyrating and thrusting to Michael Jackson's Thriller. Tennis players have been busy this week and Caroline Wozniacki gets in on the act. She looks like she could play for Australia, you know.
3) If you're unfortunate enough to be the victim of an horrific challenge pray this man doesn't stretcher you off.
4) Eric Cantona isn't the first former great to join New York Cosmos. These days Pele spends most of his day time predicting Colombia are going to win the World Cup or pontificating on why Tottenham should get the Olympic Stadium, but he once played a few games of football too. He signed for the Cosmos in 1975, spending two years there. This is his debut, an exhibition match against Dallas Tornado, these are his best moments, and this is his last game for the club. Franz Beckenbauer turned out for them too, and only went and scored on his debut. They also played several friendlies against renowned clubs, including one against Diego Maradona's Barcelona. And, of course, there was the brilliant Once in a Lifetime film.
5) Jaws is a surfing reef break in Hawaii and the waves can reach towering heights, it's safe to say you need to be brave to take them on. But you need to be even braver to ride them on in the middle of the night (also spotted by SuperBomberMan).
6) Rugby players: unhappy with your referee? Just take him out. Unless it's this referee of course, the official with the best chin in boxing.
Our favourites from last week's blog
1) Climbing up walls? Check. Jumping off bridges? Check. Rolling down a cliff and into the sea inside a giant tyre? Er, check. Check out one of the very first practitioners of parkour.
2) You'd think drawing little spheres out of a cup and reading out the number on them would be simple enough, wouldn't you? Here's the Irish FA demonstrating how to 'balls up' that tried-and-tested routine.
3) Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a Steyn ...
4) Crazy golf brilliance, in off the fountain. And while we're on the subject, Lego + mini golf + animation = this excellent short.
5) Most people have seen Boom Goes the Dynamite, but this college ice hockey cub reporter's first day takes some beating. "Let's pass it down to Charlie Clinton ..." Mind you, he's still probably better than Dean Windass.
6) Two words: rowing fail.
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Comments in chronological order (Total 96 comments)
27 January 2011 8:59AM
I posted this the other day on last week's thread but it was right at the end and probably only seen by a few.
It's a funny clip from the film Gregory's Girl, where a - funnily enough - character named Andy moans about women in football. Very topical.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEol7v7cA7Q
27 January 2011 8:59AM
That's some spiderman shit there.
27 January 2011 9:00AM
Ulrika was something else.
Oops..
27 January 2011 9:03AM
Seriiously though
"Does this sunshine have anything to do with you?"
It sounds so wrong after all his recent shenanigans.
27 January 2011 9:11AM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKfd1d72ofc
A peach of a goal from the Sudamericano U-20's.
27 January 2011 9:15AM
The stretcher guy is forever a lrgend for sitting on the injured.
27 January 2011 9:16AM
*legend*
27 January 2011 9:21AM
Yeah, and that 1930's DV camera is impressing too.
27 January 2011 9:34AM
He sat on his face.
27 January 2011 9:44AM
Wish I had some clips :(
27 January 2011 9:54AM
Come on Evander - can't touch this
27 January 2011 10:13AM
Aussie Kevin Muscat shows he hasn't lost his touch. Roy Keane would be proud of this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwHzCtRa2SE
27 January 2011 10:28AM
Sky Sports Years 1991 ...
27 January 2011 10:44AM
Someone needs to get down there and explain the foul ball rule..oh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SqJz0NgnnE&feature=fvwk
27 January 2011 10:53AM
I love Once in a Lifetime. When it got it's week-long cinema release in the UK, I managed to get over to the Greenwich Picturehouse, watching it in a cinema with three other guys. While a fine documentary, the soundtrack is just spot on and the closing credits, done to "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan, are incredibly poignant, showing what the men who made the Cosmos and then broke the Cosmos are doing now. Just wonderful.
27 January 2011 11:05AM
Did that woman drown ? Didn't see her come back up.
27 January 2011 11:18AM
I also posted this the other day on last week's, but it was right at the end and probably only seen by a few. The South American Under-20 World Cup qualifying tournament has brought both, the worst goal miss of the year in the world (Zuculini)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egbCJbBC1pQ
but also the best and most amazing goal of the year (Yohandry Orozco)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOQsQ97odQo
27 January 2011 11:19AM
Morning
Not sure if this is a repost - tasteful memorial to paul the octopus
RIP
27 January 2011 11:24AM
And talking again about the The South American Under-20 tournament, here are all the goals that have been scored so far:
Round 1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y15LIJihl6E
Round 2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8ocwD4BeaY
Round 3:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z45Rw8b7Y5w
Round 4:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sivf2255zHU
27 January 2011 11:40AM
that was supercool.
27 January 2011 11:50AM
The 2014 world cup could be fun.
27 January 2011 12:10PM
From the comments in the rowing lady falling off the boat:
I nearly spat my drink out (with fury of course).
27 January 2011 12:16PM
Nino
There's also a kitchen comment about the girls baseball catch.
nice catch and all but i didnt see no kitchen....
27 January 2011 12:29PM
my weekly opportunity to bring you all some lacrosse !
This 19 yr old (no. 36) came to play for my team 2 seasons ago..spectacular !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4rW4jSg7Mc
the guy laid out at the end was perfectly ok...
27 January 2011 12:30PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-B8rzUXOy4
27 January 2011 12:34PM
The Ulrika thing is just her reading the bloody forecase, albeit in a deliciously sexy accent. Keys was quite the gentleman.
27 January 2011 12:35PM
Two more amazing goals. The first one by Colombian James Rodriguez of the FC Porto and the second one, a great bicycle kick goal by Abdulrahman Mubarak of the Riffa Club of Bahrain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qhW_k6UoYo
and more and more great bicycle and scorpion kick goals at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgfWAuawmZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnQpl3K7wAQ
27 January 2011 12:49PM
It could have been worse for the guy on the stretcher, he could have had a couple of auditionees for the Chuckle Brothers carrying him off the pitch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO7sMFi1W2E
27 January 2011 12:51PM
Easy on the throttle mate:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sj2HgGwDOU&feature=player_embedded
27 January 2011 12:56PM
I sw both comments, and being an idiot and all I didn't get it, I thought there must have been some running kitchen Joke going on YouTube. But now I do, and it is not funnay at all, in the slightest! kitchen
27 January 2011 1:02PM
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5T-ItZc8TA&feature=related
http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8gKmQ6Hrro&feature=related
27 January 2011 1:25PM
Since you were going with Keys and Gray and Apres Match...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH14z48wawQ
Keys hands are just scary
27 January 2011 2:00PM
Has everyone already seen Roque's incredibly convincing smile as he records his charity pop song?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7zk60XHg8
27 January 2011 2:01PM
For all you NFL fans out there: QB showing true grit (something JAy Cutler could learn from):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-jzYMSiNHQ
27 January 2011 2:09PM
If you pause the stretcher thing at seconds 12-13, 19 and 25, then you will know what I've been doing all day.
27 January 2011 2:14PM
I do hope that 'spiderman' paid for that window he jumped through.
27 January 2011 2:29PM
The Charlie Clinton clip...Pure fremdschämen (my new favourite German word thanks to Rafa)
27 January 2011 3:00PM
Nice to see some surfing, I thought I'd find some windsurfing footage of Jaws, but that's not so new and it is easy to find, but then I remembered this radical footage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYLUBr4tzq4
Impressive as it all is - it is worth forwarding to 4mins for the grand finale!
27 January 2011 4:13PM
Huge, thanks for that.
27 January 2011 4:43PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X1VIyZe3Ws
One of ma fav ever. Hilarious.
27 January 2011 5:12PM
Playing American football like it's rugby:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtSHZrrwY6s
27 January 2011 5:20PM
Most amazing tennis shot ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHk3KEGF5mI
27 January 2011 6:01PM
A minefield for Richard and Andy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYLUBr4tzq4
to be fair to Michael Robinson and co. I cant hear them say anything sexist during this video, and this is in Spain, were they wouldn't get fired for it.
27 January 2011 6:52PM
Every Tour de France has a decisive moment in the mountains. "The look" from Lance to Jan Ullrich in 2001, Thevenet's attack on The Cannibal on the Puy de Dome in 1975 (although Merckx being punched by a disgruntled Frenchie spectator probably didn't help), but my all-time favourite is Stephen Roche in 1987 even if it's only for Phil Liggett nearly falling off his stool in the commentary box...
27 January 2011 7:14PM
Id' like to propose this little boxing effort which always makes me chuckle..Zab Judah getting his ass whupped and doing the chicken dance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esRMgF6KuM0
Also, and this has nothing to with sport but is equally chcken-related and funny...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5r0URDd6JM&feature=related
If you don't watch the boxing one please do watch the second link, well worth it
27 January 2011 7:15PM
Bollocks I meant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5r0URDd6JM&feature=related
27 January 2011 7:16PM
Resident, you've linked to Huge's clip of the trick windsurfer. Lord only knows what Michael Robinson said about that. Please can you re-post?
27 January 2011 8:25PM
@lukebeelot
I've always wondered why American football teams don't try something like this on every play?
Why Is it not common practice for receiving players to 'lateral' i.e. offload the ball like rugby players do?
Is there a rule or something I don't know about?
27 January 2011 9:36PM
On the theme of referees you don't want to mess with.....
footie version
Cage fight version
27 January 2011 11:24PM
@editor - thanks for the credit on the nighttime Jaws, but I also had the Clijsters Text one too. :D
Would love to see what Andy Gray would make of this