Get On Up, the fascinating and convulsive new James Brown biopic starring the extraordinary Chadwick Boseman, is a movie that conducts the crackling electricity of Brown's music with a heat and swagger and verve that rivals the achievement of what Taylor Hackford's Ray brought off 10 years ago with the life and music of Ray Charles.
Cristiano Ronaldo was even brought off for the last 10 minutes but he was in no mood to give up on his battle with Touré – a monumental mismatch on paper that had played out very differently on the pitch.
Written and directed by Ben Younger (famed for the tough financial movie Boiler Room), it tells the true story of Vinny Pazienza, the boxing champ who in 1991 brought off what some believe to be the most extraordinary comeback in boxing history; after a car crash, he endured a broken neck, and the excruciating ordeal of a "halo" head brace, to train and then defend his junior middleweight title.
Australia already boast some of the world's best strike weapons out wide, but they welcomed yet another to their fold when rugby-league recruit Wendell Sailor was brought off the bench for the last 25 minutes of Queensland's 34-17 victoverover New South Wales in an interstate contest to commemorate the centenary of Australia's federation.
Bigelow went into the ocean with Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves in the surfer-crime movie "Point Break" (1991), and brought off scenes of languorously slo-mo destruction in the cultish sci-fi crime movie "Strange Days" (1995).
In 1968 he brought off one of his great collecting coups for the Modern.
And it won because Given, the Irish keeper still traumatized by that dastardly Henry trick in Paris last month, brought off the first penalty save anyone has made against Frank Lampard in three seasons.
At this point, it has to be said that there is an elephant-in-the-living-room aspect to discussing Petit's great coup: namely, its similarity in some ways to a very much more malign spectacular brought off at the same location 27 years later.
In the 1980s, corporate raiders brought off a series of increasingly audacious takeovers, largely financed by "junk" bonds (bonds which rating agencies deem to be below investment-grade).
The Ivorian missed City's midweek victory over West Brom but has been training throughout the week after being brought off at half-time against Swansea last weekend.
