Your favourite little bits and pieces in sports

[Jeremys_Iron]

Can’t believe you didn’t lead with Gunnersaurus.

[TKC]

wanted to give the smaller guys a shout out

[rich-t]

A sweetly struck drive from twenty plus yards that projects itself six inches from the ground without bouncing in its way into the bottom corner of the net.

Huddleston used to be good at these

[colon_closed_bracket]

Got to love a badly-executed dive

[nav]

any kind of cheeky celebration

[profk]

two faves:

[urbanfox]

The commentary as well

“It’s like a runaway… cart there and eventually took… someone to stop it”

As though he was trying to think of a more colourful description but couldn’t

[jordan_229]

Stephan FECK!

[f_j_gopop]

Love the story about how that hammers mascot came about

David Squires on … his memories of working for West Ham at Upton Park

[iamwiggy]

F1 fails, like when drivers pull up to the wrong pit crew

[Severed799]

I seem to remember this was as Cowboys Stadium had just opened too (there was loads of stupid things going on there too, like people kicking the ball against the giant screen than hangs above the pitch). Partiularly funny given it’s the Cowboys and no one was seriously hurt

[The_Excession]

Roger Federer, one handed backhand down the line for a winner. Opponent visibly questions the existence of god.

[Lo-Pan]

Watching federer in general

[NoahVale]

Not been the same since he rogered Taylor Swift

[Severed799]

Looks at all those crutches

[NotEvenDreams]

[NotEvenDreams]

Quite a few of these, but this one’s my favourite…

[Scagden]

In keeping with the professional thing descending into amateurishness theme: when a batsman with little to no bowling pedigree is turned to when all the proper bowlers have failed and s/he chucks down some utter filth which results immediately in a wicket.

Root is quite good for this although he bowls often enough for it not to be THAT remarkable; Alistair Cook’s wicket taking comedy delivery was much more fun:

[wikihock]

Was playing cricket this evening, and one of the opposition bats hit one of the loveliest straight drives, so those. The kinda shots where the batsman just leans into hitting the ball, without really trying to hit it.

[Aggpass]

the two greatest things in cricket are:

• An overly flamboyant leave for a ball miles outside off
• An overly flamboyant leave for one that nips in and pings the bail off the top of off-stump (preferably without touching the stump itself)