Serie AUFO visit still baffling the world

Sepp Blatter assured us, in June, that one day, probably late in his reign, we’d be playing intergalactic World Cups.

Having spent a lot of his time on another planet, Sepp would be better placed than most to judge. And the proposition has hardly been lost on the restless folk at the Premier League, who have surely spent the past months researching how viable it might be to take their desired 39th game even further afield than initially hoped.

But would the interest be there? Is the little green boy, as Harry and co might soon be calling him, over the moon about sport?