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January 23, 2014 - Posted in footy news Posted by:

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This week also features some ice hockey savagery, arrars aggro and the worst football team in Britain

1) A couple of Gazza documentaries from the 1990s: Gazza’s Italian Diaries and Italia 90: Gascoigne’s Glory. Finally, here’s one of the better intros to a football program, care of Gazza and our own James Richardson.

2) Highlights of some of the greatest Test-match innings: Graham Gooch’s 154, Brian Lara’s 153, Kim Hughes’s 100, VVS Laxman’s 281 and Sir Ian Botham’s 149.

3) Bits and bobs. The foul that might stop Radamel Falcao from going to the World Cup, a straight from the kick-off solo stunner, a speed skater flicks the Vs at an opponent, a freak bounce basketball shot, and here’s CGI footage of Chris Tavare hitting a six for England.

4. File under random and brilliant: We Got Game … the Golden Age of Irish Basketball.

5. More football. A short film from 2012 on Madron FC, ‘the worst football team in Britain’. And here’s Poland v Italy from 2011, shot in timelapse.

6. Phil Taylor, Michael van Gerwen, John Lowe, Paul Lim and others feature in this compilation of nine-dart finishes. And Ted Hankey, to no great surprise, features in this collection of arrars aggro.

Our favourites from last week’s blog

1) Ice hockey savagery, and some more

2) Football Savagery, and yet more

3) The highest paid player in Major League Baseball, Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw, shows why with a one-man high school demolition

4) Be impressed by insane snowboarding …

5) … mesmerised by spectacular surfing

6) And how about this for a 35-yard screamer

Spotters’ badges: CommentAsMuck, garethr, Lhurgoyf, richardsmall, RedThunder, dotser, BlackCaeser

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