Pepe's party plane, a love song to El Diego and blitzing a vuvuzela to a pulp
1) Spain's footballers: not just world champions, but erudite, elegant, studied, ascetic. That is, when they're not gobbing on old men on the top of a bus like a gaggle of cider-drinking adolescents.
2) It's Pepe Reina's party plane. Watch as the world champions demonstrate what they've learned from decades of drunken English tour parties stumbling out of some beer-stained Boeing on the Alicante tarmac.
3) Ah, the drone of the vuvuzela. So evocative of long evenings spent watching shanked free kicks. And apparently even better made into a smoothie.
4) Never mind the players - at least England fans know how to lose to the Germans with dignity and good grace. Hmm. Maybe they're, you know, being ironic. Maybe the bombers are a metaphor for something.
5) Cristiano Ronaldo may have gone home early, but at least he hasn't lost his sense of humour when confronted by a sneery tabloid hack with a whiny, nagging voice. Death threats. It's the only language they understand.
6) Tired of football? Already weary of golf? Here's action from the domino world championships. Feisty stuff it is too. Thrilling even. And perhaps even better if we had any idea what was going on.
Our favourites from last week's blog
1) Ultimate nutmeg, with Juan Mata.
2) Even more ultimate nutmeg, courtesy of Juan Riquelme.
3) Indoor nutmegs, by a man who appears to be called "Erotica Centre".
4) A love song to Diego Maradona. By, erm, Diego Maradona.
5) Men in lycra fighting over a bike wrangle.
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