Liverpool v Real Madrid, MotoGP magic and cycling in the snow | Classic YouTube

This week’s roundup also features Andrés Iniesta, French Open memories and some AB de Villiers brilliance

1) There have been plenty of memorable Liverpool versus Real Madrid, including the 1981 European Cup final, with Alan Kennedy settling it, but if the crucial goal in the competition is not your thing, then catch up with every Reds strike from that year’s competition. They wouldn’t see each other again for another 28 years, until the first knockout round in 2008/9: Yossi Benayoun knocked in a winner at the Bernabéu, setting up a tense return at Anfield...which turned out to be nothing of the sort as Liverpool absolutely hosed Real 4-0, in part thanks to some generous officiating. And then there was 2014, of which the less said the better from Liverpool’s point of view: their first-team lost 3-0 at Anfield, while Brendan Rodgers’s bafflingly selected reserves were beaten 1-0 in Madrid.

2) Motorbikes never seem like the safest vehicle to be riding at 150mph, so when someone crashes inches in front of you, avoiding them is unlikely, unless you are MotoGP rider Jakob Kronfeil who sees it as a mere obstacle to jump over at ludicrous speed.

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