Making a million.

[AtW]

Make that £1000200 I now need.

[BA to the Stars]

That was always my plan as well. If I had a time machine, obviously.

I'd start with Foinavon '67.

I'd go for Headingley '81 - England at 500-1 to eat the Aussies, which we did.

Bung £20k on at the right time as the odd's hit that, wait a couple of days for Botham to butcher the Aussie bowling and Bob Willis to smash their batting, job done.

[AtW]

I'd go for Headingley '81 - England at 500-1 to eat the Aussies, which we did.

Picking correct lottery numbers on a big jackpot would surely be smarter?

[Mich the Tester]

I'd go for Headingley '81 - England at 500-1 to eat the Aussies, which we did.

Bung £20k on at the right time as the odd's hit that, wait a couple of days for Botham to butcher the Aussie bowling and Bob Willis to smash their batting, job done.

Picking correct lottery numbers on a big jackpot would surely be smarter?

Alexei, let me introduce you to a peculiar aspect of English culture. Given the choice of a multi million pound jackpot you KNOW you're going to get, or watching England thrash Australia at cricket having put a large bet on the game and pretending not to know the result, many of use would choose the second just for the sheer pleasure of watching Ian Botham walk in to bat in a no-hope situation, then smashing the Australian bowlers to every corner of the Headingley field and a few corners of the carpark outside, and of course seeing Bob Willis running in like a demented giraffe and flinging a hard ball so fast the Aussies couldn't even see the damn thing coming at them.

I was nine when I saw that and I will NEVER forget it. Yep, the recent Ashes wins were great, and the players were fantastic, but for that one season, Ian Botham in 1981 was quite simply the best cricketer I have ever seen. He might not have been great in other years, but 1981 he could have played cricket as a one man team to save the world against a team of invaders from the rest of the universe and he'd have won.

Credit to the Aussies for turning up and winning the first two games, because in hindsight, once Botham got his act together they didn't stand a chance.

Of course, if you don't follow cricket...