Floating NFL players, an ex-Gunner in Bulgaria and Adelaide Ashes Tests

Zay Jones appears to levitate, Conor Henderson pops up in the ‘First Professional Football League’, the Antarctic Ice Marathon and Felix Wiedwald’s borrowed cap

1) Remember former Arsenal midfielder Conor Henderson? Probably not as he only played one FA Cup game for them, admittedly in a 5-0 win over Leyton Orient, before spells at Hull City, Crawley Town, Grimsby Town and Eastbourne Borough. Well the English-born midielder has only gone and scored a 94th minute winner for his current club FC Pirin Blagoevgrad against the also superbly named Cherno More Varna. As injury-time winners go, a free-kick in off the bar isn’t a bad way to pick up the points for a team at the wrong end of the Bulgarian ‘First Professional Football League’ (we didn’t come up with the name), as proved by the excitable celebrations from the midfielder and his giddy team-mates.

2) American football is getting weirder by the week. Following on from the mystery of the disappearing USC player, The Buffallo Bills’ Zay Jones defies physics and floats back to his feet in the NFL match against Kansas City Chiefs. We’ve watched this numerous times and still can’t understand what’s going on.

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