This week's round-up also features Rugby World Cup magic, the happiest football team in the world and much more
1) AIK and Djurgardens held a silent protest for the first 10 minutes of their derby this week in order to make a point about the importance of the fans in modern football. Then went brilliantly bananas. But football is a passionate business after all ? just ask these Napoli fans. And these South American players.
2) As we await the first truly rip-roaring try of the 2011 Rugby World Cup, here are three of the best to keep you happy. John Kirwan dissects almost the entire Italian team in 1987, Stephen Jones completes a stunning team effort in 2003, and American winger Takudzwa Ngwenya burns Bryan Habana in 2007. Sticking with the World Cup, New Zealand take on France in the Rugby World Cup on Saturday so here are a few classic encounters between the All Blacks and Les Bleus. We begin with the 1987 final, before two heart-breaking defeats for the Antipodeans in 1999 and 2007.
3) Remember Bubba and the Golf Boys? Here's a retort from the LPGA.
4) Barcelona dispelled all fears of a crisis at Camp Nou by thrashing Osasuna on Saturday. Here are all eight goals, including a hat-trick from Lionel Messi. As for Fernando Torres, that miss doesn't get any better.
5) NFL highlights: a really rather good catch by Atlanta's Tony Gonzalez (who also excelled himself here), an even better one from the Giants' Dominic Hixon, and Michael Irvin loses the run of himself when talking about the Colts ? "We're losing recipes!" However, there can only be one touchdown of the season so far.
6) Ahead of Friday's international Twenty20 encounter between England and West Indies, we reminisce over the first ever T20 game between the two sides. The contest on 28 June 2007 at The Oval proved a real fire-cracker.
The best from last week's blog
1) If you can watch this without flinching you've got icier veins than us.
2) Selyna Bogino, five basketballs and some very impressive technique.
3) This is a rather charming short following the worst but happiest kids' football team in Spain. And in other junior football news ? how not to clear your lines.
4) Ah, the Cook Islands' Haka. The history, the pageantry, the steaming in with fists a-flying ?
5) It's not quite Danny Hart, but this is rather nice all the same.
6) And Qatar's deliberate-fouling protest at the Fiba Asia Championships led to a bizarre conclusion of their match against Iran. And while that commentator sounds thoroughly miserable at what the world is coming to, here's Sweden's Lasse Granqvist coming to the end of his tether with the country's ice hockey side. "I think I'll give up, Jansson, I'm quitting this, you can't take this anymore! You cannot take this anymore!"
Spotters' badges: Radar, philcharnock, baldEslaphead, readerinher, gantius, davideks, Godinho, DelBVista, dynamic22, olenino
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2011/sep/22/classic-youtube-best-sporting-clips
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