Classic Youtube: Drives, Dives and Mourinho at the Wrestling

There are myriad ways to kill a day at work: pray for the weekend, watch the entire series of Peep Show online, sit waiting for someone else to add water to the coffee machine before making just yourself a new cup, even sign up for the Fiver. But YouTube is still trumping them all, particularly for sports fans. So every Thursday we'll be wasting as much time as is humanly possible to bring you our favourite clips. Then you can add your own, and everyone will go home happy. Except your employer.

1) Remember the late, great Alan Ball, and listen to tributes from Bob Wilson and Bobby Charlton

2) Recall the genius of Brian Lara with some of his signature innings: 277
375
111
153, and, of course, 400

3) Jose Mourinho vowed that he'd take his kids to the WWE event at Earls Court this week and he kept his promise. But then someone told Shane McMahon that "the manager of the Chelsea football game" was in the house. Meanwhile, they say that the camera adds 10lbs, so it's lucky the Simpsons brought Ronaldo to life in animation. And while we're on the subject, here's the episode when the pick of the MLB took over the power plant's softball team, and here's the Williams sisters sticking it to Homer.

4) In this week's obscure sports department: welcome to the spectacular world of Sepak Takraw. And here's Messrs Maradona, Messi, Tevez and Crespo playing something a little similar

5) Who says water polo can't be exciting? No, really. Here, with USC and California tied at 5-5 in the final of the 2006 National Collegiate Men's Water Polo Championship, Thomas Hale gets the ball with two seconds remaining. And then things get really interesting ...

Five favourites from last week's
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1) Who's the cleverest player at Arsenal? OK, a clever player at Arsenal? Find out in this special edition of Gunners Mastermind. And while we're on football, how's about checking out these goals of the week: from Werder Bremen's Diego and Fenerbahçe's Tuncay Þanli ,against Gaziantepspor.

2) Enter the world of extreme unicycling. Warning: has the potential to do serious damage to a man's most sensitive parts ...

3) Just to remind our South African readers that they don't always get hammered by Australia, here's AB de Villiers' seemingly impossible run-out of Simon Katich.

4) If you think Gerrard, Drogba, Ronaldo and Robben are bad, check out this spectacular act of 'simulation' from an FC Molde player.

5) In darts you've got the nine-dart finish; in snooker, the 147 break. But when it comes to 10-pin bowling you get the perfect 300 game: here's Johnny Petraglia doing what every person that visits their local Megabowl dreams about.

Spotters' badges: Snappydresser; Texana; Shailes; tommyL; Gullible 1; Lpurchase.

And finally ... this from the Guardian today

1) It's Rijkaard v Völler in all its slow-motion-gobbing glory.

2) American comedienne Carol Burnett once said that "comedy is tragedy plus time". Test this theory out on Scotland's infamous 2-1 win against England at Wembley in 1977.