The gravel in your sporting ice cream.
Everyone loves seeing someone else get hurt from the safety of their desk.
Ouch My Balls – skier gambles his future family on a sweet downhill run (via Hadyn Green)
Rollerblader drifts off mid trick – really enjoy seeing rollerbladers in pain, eh
Rad sports presenter gets nailed by unnecessarily large ball – I could watch this all day
Free runner shortly before Googling ‘Oral Surgeon’ – this will teach him for being French
Not a slam per se – he’ll be pretty sore the next day, though
The Search For Animal Chin is the pinnacle of 80s Skateboard films, all frosted hair and totally tubular dialogue – there’s even a ‘making of’ doco. Bonus awesome: Johnny Rad.
Kids today do it differently of course – according to this this Spike Jonez clip, Skating today is all in slow motion with explosions and that? You wouldn’t get very fit that way.
I’m impressed by the world’s biggest ramp, but seeing the Grange Hill kids skate, though, is the raddest thing I’ve ever seen. Bless.
Ice white shoes. Ice white socks with navy blue double cadet stripes – it’s Alan in Paris. That’s… that’s the Eiffel Tower.
Remove the Apple Pie. And remove yourself from the theatre of conflict.
After a decent Links on Friday sesh, why not prop up the bar with a few ladyboys? You mentalist.
It’s a great model, it goes like a bomb… and the car’s not bad either!
Dan!
Lance Armstrong is the big story in this year’s tour – here he is battling it out on the Mount Ventoux moonscape with Matrco Pantini, before letting him cross the line first, giving Jan Ullrich ‘the look‘, and getting all narky at Paul Kimmage (while not *actually* answering the question)
Tour newbies would do well to track down Hell On Wheels, it’s a great intro to just what the hell is going on. Then watch Breaking Away, the Footloose of Cycling films
If your collar bone is still unbroken after the London Alley Cat race, don’t push your luck on the track
Cycled to work a few times? Think you could have a go? Read an amateurs’ experience on the Alpe D’Huez, and ex-pro Kimmage taking on the incline. And here’s Duncan Deadball’s live report from France. sportreview = jealous
It’s New Zealand. It’s the 80s. So I can accept Bunny Walters. I can accept Beaver. But I cannot accept Barry Crump
Keith Alllen is largely responsible for Lily Allen, and Vindaloo, much loved by people who enjoyed shouting things on the street in the 1998 World Cup
Does the montage from the Karate Kid count as sporting music? It fuckin’ does now
From the minute you see cheerleaders throwing down moves in a used car yard, you know the Glasgow American Football team’s rap is going to be *awesome*
sportreview endorses and recommends Subbuteo for making a rainy afternoon fly by (if you can’t be arsed whipping up a chocolate cake). Bonus points for having Half Man Half Biscuits’ All I want for Christmas is a Dukla Prague Away Kit on the stereo
Euro 96 happened about six months before my OE, and Three Lions used to make me so excited I could shit (along with this). Bad move bringing it back for the 1998 World Cup, though
Paul Kelly could sing about putting the bins out and still make you cry – this fan-made clip for Bradman has some sweet archive footage
Italia ’90 was a great World Cup, all bad guy Argentinians, Roger Milla dancing, Toto Schillaci’s bulging eyes and England going out heroically. It also had the best sport song ever, New Order’s World In Motion, your only chance to see Manchester’s best dance / rock band (and there’s a bit of competition there, alright) having a kick about. Features surprisingly competent rap by John Barnes
Next week on Links on Friday – Crap sporting songs
Possibly the greatest thing I’ve EVER posted (since the last one): want to see Martin Crowe in a Chris Gayle headband? Merv Hughes thinking he can walk through things? Gavin Larsen so excited he could shit? Alan Border looking annoyed? Behold.
Ian Botham is a big sportreview favorite – he’s also huge among the Australian homeless
If YOU love Evil Dead 2, surely compulsory post-match viewing for any right thinking Rugby fan, get ready for Halloween with the ED2 Chainsaw arm
Loadsa larfs at the undead’s expense is all very well – but bloody hero @nickjfrost tells you how to survive an re-animated corpse infestation, for real this time
There’s own goals and there’s the ‘batshit insane-o’ own goals
Everyone’s wanted to tackle a ref – but only this guy has the sack to do it
When a gaggle of scallywags in parkas invades the pitch, sometimes it’s up to the manager to take direct action
I don’t think this keeper will get player of the day, even when getting on the scoresheet
The latest edition of Get A Hundred is a cracker. First, he takes a Pakistani international wicket in the nets, then casually foward defends a couple to the rope with the new Excalibur. Have a look.
Get Your Basketball On! Learn the secret to wining basketball from Axel Foley
After the champions’ league win, Messi got messy in every headline writer’s dream scenario. This is what I imagine @Naly_D was like at his 21st
Forget flowers, chocolates or expensive, planet-wrecking SUVs. Get the lady in your life a Shii
Why can’t you be in one of those decent situation comedies that your mother likes?