This week’s roundup also features the week’s most suspect tackle, a court-side haircut, and if Monday Night Football did the news
1) Carlos Alberto died on Tuesday, aged 72. His defining moment – that strike against Italy in the 1970 World Cup final – will never grow old. Longer game highlights are here, here’s the goal with Brazilian commentary, and again, brick-by-brick. Alberto joined the New York Cosmos in 1977, and reflected on his time there in a 2013 video. They paid tribute to him this week with a career montage, including the moment he was introduced to fans in New York. “The greatest defender in North American Soccer League history, number five – Carlos Alberto.”
2) World Series of Poker players giving it awkward verbals – headlined by England’s William Kassouf driving Canada’s Griffin Benger to distraction, and posing the question: when does “speech play” become “being a bad person”? Here’s more Kassouf: “I’ll keep it friendly, it’s a friendly table”; and more: “the more I talk, the more I get paid”. Plus other big poker spats: losing with good grace; more bad behaviour; and, of course, the Funniest Outburst in Poker Ever!
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