Here’s Peter Drury and Jim Beglin getting excited about David Villa’s goal against Paraguay. Oh no, hang on it’s José Antonio Camacho the Osasuna coach who cannot contain his excitement. Great stuff.

http://www.marca.com/tv/?v=6HYL5xsZ2Qr

It’s the day before the World Cup final in 1986 and ITV finish off their show with some of the commentary highlights of their coverage. Love the ‘Aztec Two-Step’.

Souness quickly remembering he is on national telly

I was looking at this wonderful World Cup calendar

http://www.marca.com/deporte/futbol/mundial/sudafrica-2010/calendario-english.html

and all I could think of was that we finally, at long last have a real life “Soccer Meter” invented back in 1994 by that visionary broadcaster Alan Partridge.

We featured two bicycle kicks in one goal just here before but never two at the same time. This is from last Sunday’s match between Gimnasia La Plata and Boca Juniors After the ball deflected off a Boca defender, Gimnasia’s Sebastián Romero and Marco Pérez both had the same idea, and leapt into the air to pull off the circus trick and delight the commentator.

The the goal was eventually awarded to Pérez but it would have been good to see the scorers listed as “13th minute – Rome0 (half a goal), Perez (the other half)”

From The Guardian’s excellent ‘The Knowledge‘ section is an entry this week about Oxford United v Leyton Orient on the final day of the 2005-06 season.

“Orient needed to do at least as well as Grimsby, who were at home to Northampton, to be promoted, while Oxford needed to win to stand a chance of avoiding relegation to the Conference,” writes Csaba Abrahall. “It was a mad afternoon, and the game was poised at 2-2 going into stoppage time. With Grimsby ahead against Northampton, a draw was no use to either team, leading to a bizarre conclusion in which both sides threw everything into attack. Just as Orient broke up an Oxford attack, Northampton equalised at Grimsby, meaning that a draw would do for the Os. But the news wasn’t relayed to the players in time to prevent Luke Steele from scoring a winner in a five-against-one situation. So Orient went up, Oxford went down, and fans looked forward to the summer to recover.”

Just listen to the commentary…

“RAAAARRRRRGGGGHHHHHAGUIBEGYIBSDLGVNSODGVNJ”

Clarence Seedorf scores a last minute screamer. Italian commentator goes off on one with this little rhyme:

“Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka,
E’ il re del cioccolato,
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka,
E’ sempre il più acclamato.”

Basically translates as:

“Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka,
Is the chocolate King,
Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka,
Is the most acclaimed.”

I don’t know where this comes from but I hope it’s not from the er Borat school of thinking – “A real life chocolate face” [/Borat]

From the Tottenham Blog on the day Ossie Ardiles’ Benefit match brought exotic opposition in the shape of Internazionale of Milan, but of more interest to the Spurs crowd was the appearance of Diego Maradona in a Tottenham shirt….

His attendance ensured a sell-out crowd that put the kick-off back to allow everyone in and the game featured a feast of skill with Maradona and Hoddle linking up like they had played together all their lives.

“With Diego Maradona making a right mess of his tenure at the head coach of Argentina, there has been speculation that he will be replaced with the safe pair of managerial hands that belong to Ossie Ardiles (I know).

Once upon a time though, they were not rivals but teammates. Such was their bond that Maradona agreed to play in Ossie’s testimonial game at White Hart Lane, for Tottenham against Inter Milan back in 1986.

As you will see from the video, Maradona looked a fairly decent player in a Spurs shirt (at least as good as Mark Falco). I remember the following season there was talk of us launching a then ludicrous bid of £10m to steal Maradona away from Napoli. Seeing as Alan Sugar eventually ended up bailing us out, Irving Scholar must have regretted not going the extra inch to get Diego on the never, never.

The bit I like most about this video is Martin Tyler’s interview with Ossie and Maradona, in which he asks if Diego foresaw any trouble if England were to play Argentina in the 1986 World Cup. Sometimes with the power of hindsight, an obvious question can seem quite prophetic.”

GOOOOOOAAALAZZZZZOOOOOOO,  GOOOOOOAAALAZZZZZOOOOOOO!!!

Palmeiras’ Diego Souzas scores from downtown in their 3-1 win against Atletico Mineiro. Fantastic vision and technique.

When I said British commentators couldn’t do passion I was wrong. Here’s Peter Martin on Radio Clyde.

PICK IT OUT LANDREAU!!!