1) We can only speculate the contempt Strictly Come Dancing's "Mr Nasty", Craig Revel-Horwood, would have heaped on Tore Andre Flo's samba routine in Norway's Dancing with the Stars, but the former Chelsea striker still managed to bag the runners-up spot by tripping the light fantastic in full Norway kit while juggling a ball.
2) If surfing a tidal bore on the Amazon was not scary enough, wait till you see the size of the snakes and the short work the piranhas make of their breakfast.
3) What better way to prepare yourself for the weekend's clásico than watching a couple of 5-0 drubbings. The first, from 1994, is for Barça fans when Romario and co cut Real Madrid apart and provoked Johan Cruyff to remove his strawberry Chupa Chups to issue a rare smile. The second, 364 days later, had Cruyff choking on his lolly as Iván "Bam Bam" Zamarano scores a first-half hat-trick to restore bragging rights to the Spanish capital.
4) Finding it tough to wait for Shane Warne the Musical to transfer from Melbourne to the West End? Here's a preview of the camp-as-Christmas show being work-shopped with dancers doing jazz hands as Warnie goes from pizza-guzzling layabout to pizza-guzzling legend.
5) Grassroots streaking took off during the York City v Grays Athletic match on Saturday. We don't know if it was a nod to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, bashfulness or a concession to the cold but the chap in question had a sock to cover his modesty. Either that or he needs to see a doctor quick.
Our favourites from last week's blog
1) Semantics about chips and lobs dominated the week with outstanding examples of both but the pick of the bunch had to be the compilation of the carol singers' favourite, the little donkey himself, Ariel Ortega.
2) Greg Minnaar shows you how to get down a mountain in double-quick time. On a bike. At death-defying speeds. Warning: headcam footage not for the queasy.
3) Check out a truly preposterous pass from Zlatan Ibrahimovic.
4) In 1970 the German avant garde director Hellmuth Costard made a film focusing entirely on George Best's performance for Manchester United against Coventry. Here's an extract which begins with a lingering look at Best's face and culminates with him scoring. Think this is weird? Colthard's previous film is an hour-long portrait of a hausfrau, played by a man, as she goes about her/his business in the kitchen.
5) If Remi Gaillard was British, he would probably have had an Asbo served on him by now. There's talent there but there's also an air of Noel Edmonds smugness about his delight in his pranking. Still, knocking people off bicycles with a football is not to be sniffed at.
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And finally, the best bits from today's Guardian
1) Josh Lewsey made an impression on international rugby and also left one on Matt Rogers.
2) England's tour of India in 1984-85 began in turmoil and ended in triumph. Here's how it began in Mumbai.
