1) It wasn’t always widely known, but Buzzcocks’ brilliant Pete Shelley, who died this past week, wrote the music for the iconic Channel 4 Tour de France theme, itself taken from within 1984 track Give It To Me. Another sad passing this week was Paul Sherwen. It’s well worth a listen to the Cycling Podcast’s tribute, while Sherwen recalls how he met his broadcasting partner Phil Liggett.
2) The Miami Miracle! Obviously there’s already a Tecmo Super Bowl version out there. Gronk’s still stumbling. More laterals: here’s the Music City Miracle, which always features highly among some of the NFL’s most famous. There are more in college football, including … Miami (!) v Duke, Trinity v Millsaps and the classic: Cal v Stanford. Watch out for that band! More on The Play.
3) Jimmy Gressier successfully defended his European U23 Cross Country title last weekend. He didn’t quite nail the finish, mind.
4) Out this Friday: Sunderland ‘Til I Die. Here’s a look at the trailer. And it feels the perfect time to look back at another Wearside documentary: Premier Passions (parts one, two, three, four and five), plus the Premier Pressures followup. Oh, and here’s Peterborough’s Ivan Toney showing speed of thought to score from way downtown in the 4-4 FA Cup draw with Bradford that Posh eventually won on penalties.
5) It’s the most wonderful time of the year – darts is back at the Ally Pally. This year, two female players are in the main draw: Lisa Ashton, seen nailing a two-bull finish here, and Anastasia Dobromyslova. The Russian took part in 2009, the same year she beat Vincent van der Voort at the Grand Slam of Darts. The pair met in the BDO women’s final in January, Ashton winning 3-1.
6) To the NHL and St Louis Blues scoring one in off the ref (disallowed, alas). Here are the 2018 season’s slickest slo-mo deflections and up in Northern Michigan: goalie goal!
Our favourite from last week’s blog
1) Dean Jones and his very bad idea. Starring Curtly Ambrose and his wristband.
Spotters’ badges: Voodoo22
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