This week’s roundup also features a perilous reaction to a run-out, animals on the pitch and road race rain hazards
1) The Ryder Cup starts on Friday after a three-year pandemic-induced hiatus. Europe won impressively last time at Le Golf National, highlights including a Friday foursomes clean sweep. Here’s Henrik Stenson and Justin Rose leading the way, and Europe’s winning moment on the Sunday, as Francesco Molinari beat Phil Mickelson. The USA were rampant, however, when they last hosted, in 2016, and Ryan Moore clinched victory. The competition has often traded on a bit of spice, of course, so here’s a slice of the Battle of Brookline in 1999, when emotions ran high on both sides of the rope. Pressure is another Ryder Cup ingredient of course, so here’s a compilation of 10 memorable pressure putts. The first time Europe competed as a whole, came in 1979, losing 11-17. It all began more than half a century earlier, with only a Great Britain team competing, and here’s some Pathé News footage of that early action.
2) English football lost one of its greats last weekend, with the death of Jimmy Greaves at the age of 81. Let’s savour his finishing genius with some of his best Tottenham goals and here he is doing the business for Chelsea. He adorned West Ham’s front line too, scoring a couple in this thrashing of Manchester City. Here’s a 1969 BBC documentary about the striker, when he was still at Tottenham. He became a hugely popular figure in broadcasting after his playing career ended, of course, be it larking around with Ian St John on Saint and Greavesie or letting rip about television repeats or weather forecasts.
