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Never has the word Byzantine been used more aptly.

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Intuitively, I realised early on that American sports like the NFL were all about the money. However, it was still a weird moment to see the Vince Lombardi trophy handed to, not the MVP (Mahomes) or one of the multitude of captains (Mahomes, Kelsey, etc) or the coach (Reid), but ...

Some guy named Clark Hunt (team owner).

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Nice work Dylan. A great read as usual, a few thoughts:

Re: covid repayments drowning the unions it appeals to me as a bugger’s muddle. Can’t say what happened on the rugby side but it does t sound good, and on the government side they were bloody good at doling it out but it was impossible to give it back if it wasn’t needed. Truly a recipe for this to happen....

Re: cricket. Pleased for Will Young and I hope he makes hay. I was surprised that Mitchell went in behind Ravindra at the Mount but turns out with a “straight swap” this is great for Young, precisely where he should have been introduced to the BCs test order all those years ago.

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