Brits and Yanks: Are you really as sporty as Australians?

You could take a fairly well educated guess on how sporty the average American is by watching an episode of Jerry Springer.

The snooker world final is always on a bank holiday Monday, but I'm guessing that holiday wasn't designated specifically so that us Brits could watch the snooker all day.  And there is loads of sport normally on other bank holidays. 

I think I heard that England got a free bank holiday when we won the World Cup (the proper World Cup that is), but I may well have dreamt that!

I remember there were high level talks that we should get a holiday if England won the WC back in the Tony Blair days, I'm not sure if it was actually going to go ahead though, we never got far enough to find out.