I received an email yesterday from my work colleague Sean with what looks like becoming a familiar complaint. He's organised our rather exclusive (small) TFFO league for the past couple of seasons, and we've been grappling clumsily with the notion of flanges, cursing our inability to remember to set our teams, and generally doing what moderately incompetent TFFO players do the world over. But, it seems, no more. For Sean, you see, lives in New York, and he won't be able to register a team this year for love, and certainly not for money. And fantasy sports - at least by the Telegraph's interpretation of UK law - constitutes gambling, and must be confined to our shores.

(By an ironic twist of fate, the United States' ludicrous Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act specifically excludes fantasy games from its definition of gambling, thus making it legal in a nation that likes to confine betting to Nevada and sundry Indian Reservations).

So anyway, Sean and I agreed we would look at...

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