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Classic YouTube | Winter Olympics v Star Wars, the balloon highline and a miracle pool shot

February 20, 2014 - Posted in footy news Posted by:

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This week’s round-up also stars Diego Maradona v the League of Ireland, skiing inside Alexandra Palace and tweener magic

1) Don’t. Look. Down.

2) Random football bits and pieces: Diego Maradona scores against a League of Ireland XI in 1980; Richie Wellens fizzing one in from way downtown in 2004 for Blackpool; Ajax’s Championship game of 1994; and Attilio Lombardo at Sampdoria.

3) Efren Reyes and the miracle pool shot.

4) There are tweeners (lots of Roger Federer ones), but then there is this: Fabrice Santoro’s tweener lob from 2008.

5) Auburn college basketball fan has 95-foot putt across the length of a court to win a $15,000 car. Seen ‘em missed …

6) To Cuba, and some wild baseball, where Matanzas v Villa Clara descends into one player – not even in the game – steaming in and swinging a bat at a pitcher’s head.

Our favourites from last week’s blog

1) Finally! Someone has mixed the Winter Olympics moguls and Star Wars.

2) Finally! Footage of the UK’s first ski slope (in Harringay, naturally) – and skiing inside Alexandra Palace (and outdoors in Torquay).

3) Finally! The great documentary, 100 Years of Australian football.

4) Finally! Surfing in a Basque mountain valley.

5) Finally! Rob Dyrdek leaps 89ft 3.25in while driving a car … backwards.

6) Finally! Danny Baker’s Right Hammerings.

Spotters’ badges: TheCorporal, PizzaRe, GrahamClayton, BlackCaeser, signor.

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