Vintage Calcutta Cups, cricket on Channel 4 and the Super Bowl | Classic YouTube
1) The Six Nations begins on Saturday and England face Scotland at Twickenham, the place the Scots famously haven’t received since 1983. It’s hardly ever a cheerful searching floor for them. Still, right here’s an impressive if narrow Scotland win from 1971 and notable attracts from 1979 and the last-day 38-38 thriller from two years ago. There’s somewhat extra footage to mine on the England win aspect of the ledger at Twickenham. Here’s some vintage action from their win in 1949, Movietone footage of their swashbuckling 27-14 home success in 1967, Clive Woodward’s aspect displaying their 2003 World Cup credentials in sweeping Scotland aside to finish that 12 months’s grand slam, and a Calcutta Cup pummelling from four years ago.
2) The Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers meet in the Super Bowl on Sunday, with a lot of the common razzmatazz pared again by the pandemic. Nonetheless, it’s an intriguing match-up with a lot consideration on the sides’ star quarterbacks, the Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes and Tom Brady of the Buccaneers, who will probably be making his tenth Super Bowl look. Here are his 40 longest touchdown passes, his best moments of 2020 and, additional again, his many dazzling moments with the Patriots. And his best performs normally: we’ve got ’em. His youthful rival already has plenty of memorable performances in his locker, and here are 25 of his best passes. The Chiefs will probably be looking for their fourth title – here’s some vintage footage of their second, in 1969, whereas the Bucs have won only once, in 2002.
3) Test cricket returns to Channel 4 on Friday for the first time since 2005. C4 went out on a excessive, with the decisive last day of the most thrilling of all Ashes sequence, and Richie Benaud’s final broadcast in England. We’re not crying, you’re crying. Here’s a evaluation of the channel’s first sequence, New Zealand’s win in England in 1999.
4) Glorious days of the Australian Open on grass: Martina Navratilova v Chris Evert in the 1981 women’s final, their 1982 rematch, and Evonne Goolagong beating Helen Cawley to win the title in 1977. In the males’s singles you’ll be able to have a few of Mats Wilander outclassing Ivan Lendl to win the 1983 final and Arthur Ashe seeing off Dick Crealey in the 1970 final.
5) Palmeiras won the Copa Libertadores and their gamers celebrated by crashing their supervisor’s post-match press convention with an impromptu ice shower. At the different finish of the spectrum, right here’s the week’s best own goal, at Stockport.
6) Managers’ hinterlands: Sean Dyche goes off-piste in his press conference and just has a natter. And in a somewhat extra severe trend, Nuno Espírito Santo gives plenty back to Wolverhampton in troubled occasions.
1) You need mud? Essendon v Geelong in 1989 will give you mud.
2) Another athletics document is damaged: Ryan Crouser sets a new indoor world best in the shot put.
3) A captivating have a look at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1982.
4) Diecast rallying, thrills and spills.
5) More India v England reminiscences, with Eddie Hemmings an unlikely hero at the 1987 World Cup.
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