(1) Having given his marker the slip, Sturridge picked up the ball on the edge of the penalty area, turned Antonio Luna inside-out, then somehow shimmied his way around Brad Guzan and fired the ball high into the roof of the net in order to avoid two defenders who'd rushed back to man the line.
(2) 14 min: Zabaleta gets on the end of a beautifully angled David Silva pass on the right-hand side of the Dortmund penalty area and tries to shimmy and wriggle his way towards goal from the goal-line.
(3) Pape Souaré’s substitution at half-time was presumably so Palace’s left-back could have his neck iced, so many times did he find himself whirling around in a funk trying to work out exactly where Mahrez had shimmied off to now.
(4) 3.34pm BST 34 mins: Brilliant build up play by Suarez outside the box, as he drops a shoulder to create some space, then shimmies past one defender, but his left-footed shot is scuffed and straight to Krul for an easy save.
(5) The cerebral midfielder shimmies this way and that, hoping to prise United open somehow, but the red line holds firm.
(6) The man whose idea of small talk was once endogenous growth theory shimmied round the dance floor, swayed his hips and ran his hands up and down his (strangely non-shrinking) body, mouthing the words: “Oooooooooooh, sexy laaaydeee …” We all had high hopes for Balls on Strictly, but none of us could have ever predicted these dizzying highs – not even his wife Yvette Cooper , who watches every week with the expression of a mother watching her over-enthusiastic toddler at a dancing display.
(7) He dinks into Vargas, who looks to shimmy a yard of space, but Javi Martinez's tackle bobbles a foot or so wide.
(8) 65 min: Di Maria dances, shimmies, shakes and makes other disco-friendly movements down the right, before cutting inside, romping into the area, and whacking a low shot goalwards.
(9) Trochowski shimmies down the left and lifts a cross into the centre for Klose, who sidefoots a dropping ball into the bottom-left corner.
(10) ET21: Shimmying down the left, Kaka tries to muscle his way around the the back of the Bayern Munich defence.
(11) As Kalaba had a free-kick glance just wide off Cheik Tioté, there were shimmies and shuffles all over, almost as though they were determined to rile Ivory Coast.
(12) I can see myself speaking – it’s humiliating.” With that, she shimmies away to the far end of the couch.
(13) His songs were the soundtrack to my life: a quavering New York voice with little range singing songs of alienation and despair, with flashes of impossible hope and of those tiny, perfect days and nights we want to last for ever, important because they are so finite and so few; songs filled with people, some named, some anonymous, who strut and stagger and flit and shimmy and hitch-hike into the limelight and out again.
(14) They came in all different price points and in all different styles: round elephants reminiscent of French cartoons from the 1960s, and strange pseudo-sexual shimmies, and with 1920s straw boater hats leading parades.
(15) Those pre-ordering now get an instant download of the excellent Almost Like the Blues , a sombre lyric full of suffering set to a classy shimmy.
(16) A shirtless young man shimmied down a lamppost after scrawling "Leave you murderer" across a billboard of the president's face.
(17) Hey, nothing says "rave" quite like the CEO of Barclaycard shimmying around a chocolate teardrop in black tie get-up.
(18) No problem – depression, sexual frustration, genocide – it seemed, was so big that it couldn't be solved by a spontaneous shimmy.
(19) Anyone who missed a cinema ad in which a glass of Baileys gloop is transformed into scores of shimmying beauties, so as "to celebrate the spirit of modern womanhood", can still catch its festive promotion, "spend time with the girls this Christmas", in which three modern women, discovering that they prefer the beverage to any amount of testosterone, illustrate how positive action can be cute and fun.
(20) Backed up by a few handheld cameras and 22 radio mikes, they capture the ups and downs of academic life, from the maths teacher singing One Direction to himself as he shimmies down the corridor, to the lies told by a year 11 pupil as she successfully pins the blame on another pupil for a fight she had a hand in starting.
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(1) Photograph: Hal Shinnie Black Mirror In a festive schedule packed with unambitious franchises and dry blockbuster TV, Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror seems more innovative than ever.
(2) Jacques Maghoma, the City substitute, and then Andrew Shinnie shot against the same post before Jon Toral shot wide from the third attempt, although he had been given offside.