How not to clear after a penalty save, and Ricky Hatton gets rocked...

Picture the scene. You're the goalkeeper facing a penalty in the dying minutes of a heated match. It's the old hero or zero time of reckoning.

You leap heroically to your right, stretching every sinew in your uncoiled body to save the penalty down low. The effort required and difficulty of the save means you can only parry the shot, and you brace yourself for the fast-approaching attacker's follow-up netbuster.

But wait. Your defender has reacted quicker, and is steaming towards the ball with wide eyes and grim determination, timing the bounce ready to blast the sphere out of play and into orbit.

You relax, relishing the yet-to-be enjoyed glory of the penalty save which will surely wash over you as soon as your man makes firm contact with the ball.

And this happens.  Lordy.

It could be worse though - you could be Ricky Hatton, recovering after a devastating knock-out in the biggest fight of your career, a fight many expected you to win against the odds.

I was one of those people, placing a small wager on our Rick and excitedly waiting up until about 5am on Sunday morning to watch it pay off.

But I had barely cracked open my beer before Fillipino buzzsaw Manny Pacquiao connected with one of the sweetest KO punches I have ever seen, sending Ricky to the land of nod before he even hit the canvas.

If you haven't seen it, there's a slow-mo replay here. The quality is not great, but it's tought to find on the web! 

Crushed as I was that Ricky had seemingly abandoned all semblance of a game plan in a bid to try and simply steamroll over Pac-Man, I knew that there would be thousands across the world celebrating the victory.

This family certainly enjoyed the fight. And why not - Manny is an icon to his people and a nicer bloke you could not hope to meet.

Just don't ask him to sing. And yes, he has had three number one songs in the Phillipines. Love is blind - and deaf apparently.

Cheers!