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Sports quiz of the week: generosity, injury, thuggery and history

Who loves a new decade? Who can’t speak? Who shouldn’t speak?

How did tennis player Stefanos Tsitsipas injure his father this week?

His dad helped him warm up and was knocked out by a 140mph serve

He lost a set, smashed his racket in frustration and smacked his dad on the arm

They were playing doubles and went for the same ball. Stefanos cracked his dad on the hand and broke his finger

He left a tennis ball in the bathroom of their house, his dad tripped over it and broke his leg

Manchester United were embarrassed by Manchester City in the League Cup this week. It was the first time they had conceded three goals in the first half of a match at Old Trafford since 1997, when Juninho, Emerson and Craig Hignett all scored for Middlesbrough in a Premier League game. What was the final score that day?

Manchester United 0-5 Middlesbrough

Manchester United 3-3 Middlesbrough

Manchester United 2-5 Middlesbrough

Manchester United 3-6 Middlesbrough

The Cleveland Cavaliers coach, John Beilein, apologised to his players this week after he called them a “bunch of thugs” in a team meeting. What excuse did he give?

He says he “did not know the precise meaning of the word” when he said it

He said he was referring to the opposition but the words came out wrong

He said he watched The Irishman over Christmas and “was unduly influenced by that lexicon”

He insists he meant to call them “slugs”

Ivan Sunjic came on as a substitute for Birmingham against Blackburn in the FA Cup at the weekend. What happened two minutes later?

His team scored and his manager subbed him off “for tactical reasons”

He scored, was shown a yellow card for taking off his shirt and then sent off for arguing with the referee about it

He fell into an advertising hoarding, injured himself and had to be taken off

He gave away the ball, gave away a penalty and was sent off

Why did cricketer Jos Buttler have to pay back 15% of his fee after the Test match between England and South Africa?

He was caught smoking in the showers after the game

He spat chewing gum on the field and was fined for littering

He called an opponent a “fucking knobhead” on the field and was caught on TV

He had the logo of a betting company shaved into his hair

Sadio Mané was presented with the African Footballer of the Year award this week in Egypt. Two other players have won the award while at Liverpool: Mohamed Salah and…

Bruce Grobbelaar

Kolo Touré

El Hadji Diouf

Djimi Traoré

Josh Jacobs signed a four-year contract with the Oakland Raiders this week that is worth nearly $12m. How did he celebrate?

He went to an auction in Hollywood and bought the costume Darth Vader wore in the original Star Wars trilogy for $1.5m

He offered his best mate a $50,000-a-year contract to be his “PlayStation assistant”

He bought his dad a house

He donated half of those wages to Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign

The Supercopa de España – the Spanish version of the Community Shield – has traditionally been played in Spain. But not always. It is being played in Saudi Arabia this year. Which country hosted the game last year?

France

USA

Morocco

Singapore

How did Leighton Bennett make history this week at the BDO World Darts Championship?

Bennett, who turned 14 in December, became the youngest player to compete at a darts world championship

He became the first player to compete in a wheelchair

He became the first player to hit two nine-dart finishes but lose a match

He qualified for the tournament at the age of 77, having only taken up the sport after retiring aged 50

Mario Balotelli scored for Brescia against Lazio at the weekend. What made the goal so special?

It was the first time he has scored in Rome

It was the first goal he has scored in the month of January

It was the first Serie A goal of the year, meaning Balotelli has now scored the first Serie A goal at the start of both the 2010s and the 2020s

It was the first goal he has ever scored with his left foot

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Football saved me after I killed enemy during war - Liverpool legend Grobbelaar

Former Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar says football “saved him” after he was forced to kill opposition fighters while serving in the army.

Grobbelaar, 60, fought in the Rhodesian Bush War in the 1970s and says he still experiences “cold sweats” when reminded of his experiences.

Zimbabwean Grobbelaar made 440 appearances for the Reds and won 13 major titles during a 13-year spell.

“You’re not the same person once you have done it,” Grobbelaar said.

“You have to live with the consequences for the rest of your life.”

In a wide-ranging interview, Grobbelaar speaks to BBC World Service about match-fixing allegations, the Heysel disaster, having a dart thrown at him on the pitch, Liverpool’s unique way of handing out medals and how an umbrella almost cost him his move to Anfield.

‘Football took my mind off war’

Grobbelaar was conscripted into the army for an initial 11-month period and was immediately sent into the bush war – an uprising against white rule in Rhodesia,[1] a country which later became Zimbabwe in 1980.

He worked as an enemy tracker and saw three friends die during the war, as well as being forced to kill himself.

“The memories have subsided somewhat, but there are times when you are with your mates back in Africa and they particularly like to speak about it. I don’t,” he says.

“After that, for about a two or three-week period, I do get cold sweats and wake up with those feelings again.”

Grobbelaar credits football with keeping him alive after his conscription ended, moving to Canada to join the Vancouver Whitecaps in 1979 before his switch to Liverpool two years later. He also played for Southampton and Plymouth.

“Over the years, I am very lucky that I didn’t submerge into a form of depression, because football saved my life really,” he says.

“Once I came out of the military, I had football to fall upon which took my mind off those incidents.”

‘I was running to do my warm-up with an umbrella’

Grobbelaar supported Derby County as a youngster but switched his allegiance to Liverpool due to the Liver Bird’s representation as a cormorant – a type of African bird.

He spent 13 years at Anfield but almost blew his first opportunity to impress then-Reds manager Bob Paisley while on loan at Crewe from the Whitecaps.

“I was playing for Crewe against York City and Bob Paisley and Tom Saunders came to watch that game,” he says.

“When I ran in from the warm-up, our manager was shaking his head. I said ‘what’s the matter?’ and he said ‘those two very important people came to watch you play’. They had then gone to watch Stoke City play Port Vale instead.

“It was maybe because I was running outside with an umbrella to do my warm-up because it was raining.”

He eventually signed for Liverpool the following year and went on to win six league titles as well as three FA Cups and one European Cup, but the club’s coach had a way of making sure his team-mates didn’t get too big-headed from their success.

“Ronnie Moran kept all the medals, and on the first day of pre-season he would bring a cardboard box with them all in. He put it on the bed and said ‘pick up a medal if you think you deserved it last season’,” Grobbelaar says.

“A lot of guys had to ask the boss if they had played enough games to pick out a medal.”

‘None of the players wanted to play at Heysel’

Grobbelaar was Liverpool’s number one during both the Heysel and Hillsborough stadium disasters, and revealed the former was the first and only time his mother saw him play live.

Thirty-nine fans were killed when fans were crushed against a wall that then collapsed during the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus, after crowd trouble culminated in a surge by Liverpool supporters towards the Italian team’s fans.

“None of the players wanted to go out and play. We were asked by Uefa to go out because they thought the fighting would escalate if not,” Grobbelaar says.

“I remember a lot of people coming through asking for towels and water, we kept giving them it so they could try to revive people.

“I remember going out onto the pitch and picking out two knives that had buried into the grass; they had been thrown onto the pitch by the Juventus fans and they were stuck in the middle of the six-yard box.”

Grobbelaar went on to play in many more intimidating atmospheres throughout his career, and was the target of many objects thrown from crowds.

“I’ve had a lot of things thrown at me. A lot of coins that had been sharpened, billiard balls, and I had a dart thrown at my back at Burnley,” he says. “And potatoes with razor blades.”

‘Match-fixing allegations took 12 years from me’

Grobbelaar’s achievements during his playing career were overshadowed when in 1994, it was alleged he had accepted money to throw matches.

He was ultimately cleared at court and still denies the allegations, but says the period blighted his career.

“From start to finish, it went on for about six years, and then it took six years for my marriage to end. It took 12 years,” he says.

“I moved to Southampton and when that story broke, they asked me six times if I had done it and I said no. I played 80% of the 1994-95 season, we ended the season in 10th.

“[Manager] Alan Ball moved the next year, and my contract was for three years, but in the second year, Dave Merrington didn’t play me until the last six games when I helped them to stay in the league.

“My third manager was Graeme Souness, and he told me I must go.”

References

^ an uprising against white rule in Rhodesia, (www.bbc.co.uk)

BBC Sport – Football

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Bruce Grobbelaar Hand Signed LFC Career Stats Montage 16 x12 in Classic Frame

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