It’s like referring to Red Sox fans as “yankees”.  Well, yes, I suppose that’s technically correct, but...

I’m English; nearly all of my feed are England fans, so that doesn’t work for me.

That worked out pretty well, as did the Italia’90 team.

Nah, there’s Ivanka first.

Japan and South Korea both got automatic bids in 2002.

Rather than reading something - imagine trying to understand baseball without ever having seen a game, and with someone explaining the infield fly rule first - I suggest just listening to games. BBC’s “Test Match Special” is streamed over the internet, and while it’s supposed to be UK-only, it’s generally pretty easy…

It’s annoying that MLB.TV won’t let you listen to the radio announcers.

PS, seriously, if you like baseball on the radio, then try cricket on the radio. It’ll take a while to get the hang of the rules, but you really don’t need to care on the radio - I listen to both and they very much have the same rhythms.

BBC used to let you choose between TV announcers, radio announcers and stadium sound for cricket matches.

St. Martin’s college?

There’s a long-running argument about European games, whether you should support the team from your country, or support the opponents of your rival team.

Rugby League has had “choose your opponent” for the top-seed in the playoffs intermittently. They called it “Club Call” in England in 2009-2014.

(they gave it up because the number-one teams complained that it was a smaller advantage than just reseeding).

If you want amateur sports, then it’s easy to get them. Ban revenue.

Up to the country - as long as the country will issue you a passport, you can represent them. Some sports have rules requiring at least one grandparent, birth in the country, or X (usually three or five) years’ naturalisation, but the Olympics as a whole doesn’t.

In 1990, Volkov and Krikalev launched into space and the country didn’t exist when they got back.

In sports where coaches are mostly ex-players (unlike, say, football where there’s a separate career track for coaches), it’s noticeable that the best players rarely make great coaches for that exact reason - they can’t explain how to do something because they never had to work out how they were doing it themselves.

Whatever the lowest level is that you might get a few people to pay to watch. They had 120 paying spectators for that cup match - which is probably the biggest of their season.

Probably the underwire is setting off a metal detector.

There is a very very old saying: “A Ship’s A Fool To Fight A Fort”.

Mandatory paid sick days, and three weeks of paid vacation.

The TV station (Sky) and the bookie (SunBet) are both owned by the same parent company.