1) All pixels, all, well, mainly, perfect: the Fifa video game story, while retro game fans will doubtless enjoy our gallery of football gaming. “You’re a goalscoring, superstar hero!” – relive the marvellous Sensible Soccer theme in its entirety and sticking with Sensi, here’s a fantastic collection of real-life goals that could have come straight from the joystick and some crackers from the game itself. There is more. Roberto Carlos gets the Sensi treatment; Anglia News report on the game in 1992; Sensible Soccer Meets Bulldog Blighty; keep it in the air; the Cannon Soccer Amiga Format Special; Sensible World of Moon Soccer; and Unsensible Soccer. That has the top-end of the market covered, unlike Ashes Cricket 2013 however, which scraped the barrel before it was withdrawn from sale; equally International Rugby Challenge singularly failed to match Sensi’s success. Finally, when real sport fails, enter the properly bonkers sci-fi dystopia of Charles Barkley – “One billion b-balls dribbling simultaneously throughout the galaxy!” – in Barkley: Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden.
2) “I’m getting tired just watching it.” Long badminton rally is very long.
3) Some bicycle-kick-tastic action here, while Alexis Sánchez has some warm-up magic here and Paul Scholes hits a rocket during an exhibition match in Hong Kong.
4) To celebrate Back To The Future Day (which apparently, is a thing) Manchester City had Bacary Sagna recreate the original trailer. Could Gareth Bale do Pretty In Pink next please?
5) Lewis Hamilton will take his third F1 World Championship this weekend at the circuit of the Americas should he win and Sebastian Vettel finish third or below. Here’s the nail-baiting finale to the British driver’s first title in 2008 and his second from last year. Should he do so, he will match Sir Jackie Stewart’s tally of three. To be fair, however, Stewart did it in a different age – as this fantastic Pathé footage of his win in extraordinary conditions at the Nürburgring in 1968 demonstrates.
6) Catch of the week: Dinesh Chandimal clings on to a cracker.
Our favourites from last week’s blog
1) Boxing’s top 10 hardest punchers.
2) Steam trains and northern soul – courtesy of FC United of Manchester and the glorious Don Thomas – all aboard the Rammy Rattler.
3) Touchdown of the year - a masterpiece of feel and timing – as it had to be since Francis Owusu could not even see the ball.
4) Sublime to ridiculous to, well, absurd, corner: a beautifully compiled little film celebrating Maradona at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico; a goalie hits a big one and another successful longshot; a bicycle kick comes unstuck here producing perhaps the most extraordinary expression ever seen on a football pitch at 40 seconds in; a stretcher bearer fails to bear and Boris Johnson refuses to let a small child stop his bid for the line in Tokyo.
5) Last week Isao Machii sliced through a baseball in flight at 100mph, turns out he has form and does the same again here to a tiny BB gun pellet.
6) Matt Kuchar misses a putt but lets high winds do the rest.
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