This week’s roundup also includes classic Tour de France clips, a Joe Cole wonder-strike and a crying Son Heung-min
1) Australia and the Philippines traded haymakers and flying kicks in a Fiba World Cup qualifier in Bulocan. Maybe it’s something about the claustrophobic nature of the court but basketball has had its fair share of blockbuster brawls down the years. The nadir was 2004’s Malice at the Palace as a fight between Detroit’s Ben Wallace and Ron Artest – later to be known as Metta World Peace – spilled into the stands. Celtics favourite Kevin McHale executed this clothesline on LA Lakers’ Kurt Rambis while Larry Bird’s legendary lip led to Julius Erving delivering this flurry of jabs firmly on his mush. If you like your brawls with a bit more innocence, here’s a top 10 compilation from college basketball.
2) Fifa has a pretty tight hold of all World Cup footage on the pitch, but sometimes the drama off it is just as good. This lone England fan bursting into a bar full of Colombians after the penalty shoot-out win takes some beating, but it’s fair to say this this Uruguayan fan was also quite excited about beating Portugal. Technology was certainly required for Russian cosmonauts Oleg Artemyev and Sergey Prokopyev to watch their win over Spain from space while Croatians got their flares out in Zagreb after defeating Denmark.
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