This week’s roundup also features spectacular bow and arrow work, the SCG, FA Cup and the Golden Horseshoe Crokinole tournament

1) The BDO World Darts Championship starts this weekend. Here’s 25-year-old Terry Down throwing as slowly as possible in 1985, much to the disgust of Jocky Wilson; Paul Lim’s 1990 nine-darter, the first in the world championship; also that year but from the World Youth Championship, an interview with a 16-year-old Wayne Mardle; and a bonus: Mardle not knowing he’s on telly and choosing his language accordingly.

2) The Sydney Test match is in full swing. Here are highlights of the 1995 classic, in which England wisely declared with Graeme Hick on 98 not out, then narrowly failed to record a win; here’s the 1975 version, won easily by Australia; the Aussies return to the dressing room after completing the 2013-14 whitewash; behind the scenes in 2011; England fans give Mitchell Johnson aggravation; and fan footage of England securing the urn at the end of that match.

3) This exceedingly long weekend marks the third round of the FA Cup. Naturally we’ve rinsed that to death on various other occasions (well, apart from Chesham United’s 1979-80 run), so instead here’s a miss that had everything from the fourth round in 1984: late in the game, a local derby, and delivered with definitive force and spectacular hair, immediately preceding a winner for the opposition. Well played Pompey’s Alan Biley.

4) Certain individuals are good enough to make certain other individuals look silly on purpose. Here’s George Best punking Gordon Banks, a goal so good the referee applauds; here’s Best punking Banks later in the same game – “Yes indeed!”; and here’s Best punking Banks at international level, only for the ref to ruin it.

5) Paul Scholes famously hates talking – so much so that he now has a job, talking. This has not been well received in all quarters. Here are some of Scholes’s offending words as he discusses what Manchester United need and unwittingly describes himself, and here he is on growing up with Alex Ferguson and the Class of 92.

6) Not sport, strictly speaking, but most definitely both classic and YouTube, so here is James performing Countdown’s greatest ever numbers game.

Our favourites from last week’s blog

1) Ed Clancy accidentally headbutts Alex Minting and wins the Revolution Longest Lap race in 2015.

2) Lars Andersen doing spectacular things with a bow and arrow.

3) Knockerball Soccer Rodeo. Really.

4) The semi-final match of the 2016 Golden Horseshoe Crokinole Tournament, from Hamilton, Ontario.

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