So one of these is Baggio '94 and the other is Chris Waddle '90 but which is which?

That explains England, then, as there is a fair chunk of the population that thinks it's either Rugby League or Rugby Union, depending where they live. Mostly mid-sized towns like St Helens or Castlefield (league) or Northampton or Bath (union).

All the way through the eighties when they didn't win anything.

United is probably the club that's helped most by FFP, though. Because the money comes from revenue rather than borrowing (Madrid, Barca) or a rich owner (City, Chelsea), they won't break the FFP rules. Arsenal and Bayern Munich are in similar positions - they don't have money to throw around beyond what they bring…

It doesn't make competitive balance much better, but it doesn't make it worse.

To be fair, Gisele isn't actually part of Tom Brady's compensation package.

During the normal season, no games are allowed to be broadcast between 2:45pm and 5:15pm on a Saturday. This is an agreement intended to protect attendance at lower-league games. All of the lower leagues (League One, League Two, Conference, Northern Premier League, Southern League, etc) kick off at 3pm on a Saturday.…

All Olympic sports hand the medals to the players, of course (but then, who is the owner of the USA, anyway? Obama?)

Require the coaches to be academics, require them to teach a 3/3 and maintain academic standards among their students. Oh, and require them to be paid the same scale as any other academic.

If the NCAA doesn't want to professionalise the game, then they just have to make it actually amateur. New rule: no person may gain any financial benefit from their involvement in the sport.

Missing: "The Chain" (BBC Formula One) and "Soul Limbo" (BBC Cricket)

I'm just dreaming of what the unbalanced setups for the 2 point PAT look like with the ball on the sideline. Shotgun the ball diagonally inbounds to give your team more space?

You might want to make the touchdown an actual touchdown here, so you have to actually touch the ball down to score - that way you can catch the ball in the end zone and run towards the center, taking the risk that you might be tackled and held up (so you can't get the ball to the ground), or you can take the easy TD…

I like the way we do anthems in Europe - get a band to play and then let the crowd do the singing.

He goes straight to the VC ballot (players are next up in 2017). He's eligible for the managers' ballot once he retires as a manager. They're not supposed to vote for combined achievement as manager and player (ie, if you're just short on both, you're not supposed to get in).

If you actually wanted Euro-style champions in the NFL, split it into four divisions of nine teams each. Home-and-home round-robin; top of the first division is the champion. Two-up, two-down relegation and promotion. Easy.

I'm gluten-intolerant (not coeliac, but IBS) and I drink plenty of whisky without a problem.

The Kiwis are the New Zealand national rugby league team.

Mustard (Dijon) is in my mother's stroganoff recipe, and hers tastes great.

British bars don't do free mixers, which wrecks the price of cocktails.