This week: OG Super League wars, you know who else was illegal under European law, meritocracy vs idiocracy, Spurs bury the lede (and their coach), forget Paris, FIAT failsons, dishonourable conduct, feeding the cash monster, this party sucks let’s go home, blunt instruments, writing your own ticket, oh no Milan might fall out of the Champions League places, the Germans win again, Doc explains the 50+1 rule badly, Wading into SLC, Utah is for the people, blame the Seppos, getting paid to play children’s games, know your product, literally not better than nothing, making a Kante of yourself, positional awareness in under 9s soccer, the Knicks making the East finals, all-in on the play-in, Denver Island, the WLWLWarriors, a loaf of bread floating in a toilet, old washed dude energy, tenth isn’t anywhere, weirdly not-disgraced baseball dudes with enormous paintings of themselves as centaurs above their beds, shouts to Ian Karmel (sorry about your boss being an insufferable flute), that guy who switched off Mavs-Grizz before Grayson Allen’s free throws and terrible cell phones. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.