Marylebone Cricket Club have this week met the six candidates ready to buy a stake in the Hundred’s most highly prized team – Lord’s-based London Spirit – with groups involving the Manchester United and Chelsea owners doing battle with Formula One’s rulers.
The brief interregnum of Lee Carsley has not been without incident, although in Athens so the odyssey delivered him from the mistakes of his past and a triumph that means life will be a little simpler for his successor Thomas Tuchel.
Premier League referee David Coote has been suspended from duties over alleged comments made about Liverpool and Jurgen Klopp, but before that he had tangled with Manchester United and Matthijs de Ligt.