He had started the 2013 season with a win at the Chinese Grand Prix and was on the heels of Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull in the race for the title.

Alonso started the race P5 on the grid behind Nico Rosberg in pole, Lewis Hamilton, Vettel, and Kimi Raikkonen.

A daring start meant that he quickly overtook both Raikkonen and Hamilton who had already been overtaken by Vettel.

Alonso managed to slip on the outside of Hamilton to slot into 3rd position.

The Spaniard then began to jostle for the second position and overtook Vettel who had pitted for new tires.

The two-time World Champion was soon behind Rosberg.

After overtaking the German, it was up to Vettel to get around his fellow countryman which he did with relative ease under the heat of Catalunya.

After a third pit stop, Alonso was behind Raikkonen but overtook the Lotus driver and maintained his position to take his 32nd victory.

Raikkonen and Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa would round up the podium as eventual World Champion Vettel would finish fourth.

His recent success finishing fourth, third and second in the last three races bodes well for this weekend’s upcoming Grand Prix.

It would be apt for Fernando Alonso to finally win this race ten years on from his last win at the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix.

Women’s tennis is a non-stop merry-go-round of great players becoming champions one after another.

The one consistent and most successful player over the past 25 years has been Serena Williams.

She had won up to this point 19 Grand Slams in her career including two prior French Open victories in 2002 and 2013.

She came in as the number one seed and was looking to add to her Australian Open title won earlier in the year.

Her opponent was 13th seed Lucie Safarova of the Czech Republic who managed to eliminate reigning French Open champion Maria Sharapova in the Fourth round.

In the first set, Serena took a blistering lead putting power into every shot to get away from Safarova.

She would win it 6-3 but the Czech player would come back with dogged determination in the second set.

Despite taking a four-games-to-one lead Safarova fought back and took the lead in the set with some fine shots.

Williams would regain the lead 6-5 before dropping the set to Safarova 7-6.

Whatever energy was left for Lucie, unfortunately, left her in the final set as Williams proceeded to put on a clinical display and win her 20th Grand Slam.

The match is one of the most memorable in recent history and one month later Serena went on to win Wimbledon as well.

City rarely used to have chances to gloat properly over their arch-rivals United when winning against them on derby day.

In 2018 they could have won the league beating United to seal the deal breaking all kinds of records in the process.

They failed with a second-half collapse and a litany of missed chances.

City went one up through captain Vincent Kompany who scored a bullet header, similar to the winner he scored in 2012.

Then Ilkay Gundogan managed to pass it into the back of the net five minutes later.

City had a couple more chances before half-time but Sterling, through on goal, missed both.

The Cityzens has a long history of blowing two-goal leads against the Red Devils.

The fans started sweating when Paul Pogba was clean through on goal and did not miss.

Two minutes later, the Frenchman equalised finding his way past the city defence yet again and scoring a header of his own.

United was in control and eventually, it fell to Chris Smalling who netted with zero defenders around him.

City’s misery was compounded by a magnificent David De Gea save to deny Sergio Aguero another derby goal.

City would win the league one week later and eventually become the first team to reach 100 points in the history of the top division in England.

Not very often that a game is so memorable that the newspaper headline itself is part of football folklore.

“Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious!” was the headline in the Scottish Sun.

Inverness had only been in existence for six years and were promoted to the second tier the previous season when they got drawn against Celtic in the third round of the Cup.

Celtic did put out a weakened team at Celtic Park thinking this would be an easy stroll out in the evening.

Caley took an early lead, a Barry Wilson header looping over the keeper.

Celtic woke up and Mark Burchill took advantage of a slip by the defender to score a minute later. But once again Celtic fell to sleep.

Less than ten minutes later, Caley defender Bobby Mann’s header from a corner was going wide, but Lubomir Moravcik helped changed its course with a shocking clearance.

Hoops striker Mark Viduka had all four of his shots saved and was substituted at half time, it turns out he had a massive fight with the Celtic assistant manager. Ian Wright came on but did not fare any better.

Eventually, Caley put the tie to bed with a penalty scored by Paul Sheerin.

The game is considered one of the greatest upsets in Scottish football history and Inverness is hoping to create more of the same headlines on Saturday at Hampden Park.

The Athletic Club of Bilbao have one of the most storied histories in Spain with eight league titles and 23 Copa Del Reys the last of which was the double in 1984.

They have also one of the most unique recruiting systems in the world taking only players from the Basque region.

This is a far cry from the Real Madrid universe.

The Galacticos are all about winning, strength, power, and beauty.

In other words, the best players play the most beautiful football to win all the time.

This rivalry whilst less pronounced than the Madrid derby or the Clasico is about two clubs with polar opposite ideologies, in and outside of football.

The Madrid team that day included Karim Benzema, Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, Sergio Ramos, and Xabi Alonso.

Bilbao took a very early lead with a header by club legend Fernando Llorente.

Bilbao missed the opportunity to go 1-0 up a minute earlier when they hit the post twice in the same attack.

Real Madrid spent the rest of the game putting a siege on the Bilbao goal.

A couple of goal-line clearances and Benzema hitting the post meant that Bilbao survived the onslaught from Los Blancos.

A rare win for the Basques, Bilbao’s success has dwindled in the past few decades, making wins against Real Madrid sweeter.