Also featuring Stuart Broad and beans at Trent Bridge, a goose on the pitch and a Nick Kyrgios 115mph forehand winner1) It´s the first Bledisloe Cup match of 2018 between New Zealand and Australia so let´s begin with this utterly ridiculous Christian Cullen try from 2000, with significant input from Jonah Lomu and Tana Umaga. Cullen, again, this time going it alone in Dunedin in 1997. Stirling Mortlock waltzing through the All Black midfield before popping the ball off to Scott Staniforth at the MCG in 2007. Or two monstrous counterattacks from each side; first, Matt Burke in 1996 and then, Frank Bunce on the end of a move involving seven other players in 1992.2) Villarreal got all David Copperfield when they unveiled Santi Cazorla as their new signing at El Madrigal. Revisit an age when unveiling signings consisted of Diego Maradona booting a ball high into the San Paolo having joined Napoli in 1984, Neymar, in more innocent and likeable times, a sheepish Kaká stepping out at the Bernabéu (it was all downhill from there), Cristiano Ronaldo having 80,000 people turn up for his Madrid welcome or even David Beckham looking very 2003 for Los Blancos. Finally, there´s Gazza getting mobbed in Rome after signing for Lazio. Continue reading...
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