IF your mind works the way mine does - God help you, says the editor - then you might just have a list of ingenious sporting contests that you would love to see come to fruition.
Wouldn't it be great, for instance, if we could have an annual World Cup of boxing, something that could unify all these WBOs, WBAs and IBFs for good? After the events of the weekend, it would obviously be complete with the most stringent of medical testing and safeguards.
How about we also ignore all the obvious logistical problems and instigate a World Championships of Test cricket? After all, rugby matches last 80 minutes not five days and their World Cup still seems to take an eternity.
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You could even throw Celtic and Rangers into the Barclays Premier League into this one. Or how about making something meaningful out of the football Club World Cup, providing a format which all the world's best football clubs can genuinely buy into without wrecking their domestic seasons?
And, of course, any discussion must end with unanimity about the desirability of bringing back Superstars and the Tennent's Sixes.
The one thing you will have noticed about Gianni Infantino's proposal for an expanded 48-team World Cup is that it is not on anybody's list. While the potential spin-off for Scotland is clear should Fifa's new wunderkind's brainchild come to fruition, it is worth reminding ourselves that bigger is not always better.
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His plan envisages an extra 16 teams joining the party, playing a preliminary round, then returning home again if they don't make it.
But the very fact such a proposal feels so superficially attractive to a Scottish audience starved of qualification for the last two decades gives the game away. It is usually wise to ask yourself what is the motivation for the change and in this case it boils down to two things.
First, is the need for Infantino to ingratiate himself with those nations who are bumping their guns about the difficulty of the World Cup qualifying progress to ensure he remains in power. Second, is the inexorable desire to improve the profitability of the sport and generate more income from broadcasters and sponsors. While anything has to be better than what went before, it is a depressing first glimpse of Fifa's post-Blatter future.
The capacity of that little cathode ray tube in the corner and other various forms of technology to alter the very fabric of sport is hardly new. While some innovations, like the shot clock and three-point line in basketball, the introduction of Hawk-Eye challenges in tennis or the Twenty20 format in cricket, have proved their worth over time, most have fallen by the wayside.
The jury is still out on both the 24-team European Championship finals and another of Infantino's previous concept albums, what is to be known as the Uefa Nations League. While Scotland, on the outside looking in, had its own reasons for loathing France 2016, for me going to 24 teams had both merits and demerits. While plenty of the interlopers to the party enhanced the competition - the likes of Northern Ireland, Wales and Iceland are hardly serial qualifiers - the capacity of teams like eventual winners Portugal to progress to the last 16 with three draws hardly promoted attacking football. In fact, there was a case for expanding it to 32, but ensuring only the top two teams in each group qualified.
As for the "nations league", commencing shortly after the World Cup in 2018, matches in this "competition" will replace international friendlies as teams endeavour to take incremental steps up the continental football ladder. Details remain thin, but essentially it will allow Europe's top 12 teams to play in a league of their own, with a winner crowned every two years. Even those like Scotland in Europe's equivalent of the Championship or League One, will get a share of the cash.
The same kind of direction of travel is at work here now Infantino has graduated to the world stage. He hopes to have his cake and eat it with plans which would catch all big media marketplaces by expanding to the World Cup to 48 teams, at the same time as protecting the top 16 seeds. Like a footballing version of The One Show, it offers a little bit of everything in an attempt to guarantee the biggest TV audience possible.
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Yet if there is a lesson from last weekend's Ryder Cup - apart from the one for Darren Clarke to keep in-form guys like Rafa Cabrera-Bello out there for the Saturday afternoon four balls - it is surely that some of the greatest sporting formats were devised back in the days before this obsession with peak viewing figures.
Samuel Ryder inaugurated the format for the Ryder Cup in 1927, just two years after John Logie Baird was giving the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion at Selfridge's Department Store in London. Dwight Davis dreamed up the Davis Cup format in 1900, another age old formula which faces some tinkering in the modern era. The World Cup, expanded to 24 teams in 1982 and 32 teams in 1998, is another of the crown jewels of world sport. If it ain't broke don't fix it. Because once the magic has gone, you might not be able to get it back.
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