Sporting pictures of the week :- 1 June
0It was all going so well for Steven Adams’s Oklahoma City Thunder in the most anticipated NBA match in New Zealand. Then a Presidential candidate turned up (didn’t he get the yellow t-shirt memo?) and everything changed.
As an aside, remember this ad? Apparently filmed in the middle of a working day.
Atlético Madrid fans travelled to Milan to watch their team take on the cross-town Evil Empire. This is what despair looks like after the Evil Empire went ahead.
And rubbing salt into the wounds was the guy who waited for his chance to score the winning goal when the Penalty Shoot-out came around.
Kyle Jarvis is a journeyman Zimbabwean cricketer currently based in Lancashire. He also got to break the biggest sporting story of the week like this.
Here is Englishman Tommy Smith being taught how to make omelettes on TV. There has to be a metaphor in there somewhere.
Ross Taylor has been one of the world’s best slip fieldsmen for years. When playing for Sussex they get him at field at … back stop.
It’s all go at Sussex though, with their mascot Sid the Shark terrorising an opposing player who typically doesn’t flinch easily.
The Hurricanes had a season-break super hero dress up party. Oh Beaudy…
The Monte Carlo Grand Prix. It’s still got it.
Mad Butcher CEO Mike Morton, Joseph Parker, and David Higgins go to Hollywood. How would you describe Higgins’s look there?
Big Sam on holiday in Spain. And why not.
Big Sam. Marbella. Dancing. Drink it in people. pic.twitter.com/1NkyNercTT
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