Gareth Bale - football as art

If anyone ever doubted that great football is an art form, watch this.



The clip is taken from the Run of Play football blog - 'a blog about the wonder and terror of soccer'.

Joe Jordan makes Rino Gattuso look very small indeed

Joe Jordan is from mining stock just south of Glasgow.
I'm not sure he would even call this a headbutt.

The Palin map - Giffords' chilling prediction

The Independent's Jonathan Raban writes:

Gabrielle Giffords made great sense when, in March 2010, she discussed the Palin map with a TV interviewer, saying: "Sarah Palin has the cross-hairs of a gunsight over our district – and when people do that, they've got to realise there are consequences to that action."

We don't know exactly what she was getting at but it's a chilling quote.
Hopefully she'll soon be able to tell us.