1 Benjani Mwaruwari It's your multi-million pound move to Manchester City. All you have to do is get on a plane. You're so excited, you fall asleep in the departure lounge. When roused, the next plane is cancelled, the one after that delayed. You arrive just in time to cause an administrative headache. It's as if you don't really want to go. . .
2 Andrew Flintoff Naturally, the poor lamb was tired after his 32-hour post-Ashes victory celebration. Naturally, having got Freddied, he fell fast asleep on the team coach afterwards. Naturally, Steve Harmison daubed the word "TWAT" on his forehead with a marker pen, plus beard and spectacles. Naturally, being Off His Fred, he slept through that, too. Hic.
3 Graeme Dott In 2002, the snooker star spent 42 hours flying from Glasgow to Shanghai for the China Open, only to oversleep, run a half-mile to the venue, arrive late, lose his first-round match and then fly straight back home.
4 Phil Tufnell Ever wondered how he was nicknamed The Cat? It had nothing to do with his reflexes. He was 12th man when Middlesex played Yorkshire at Headingley and, thinking he wouldn't be required, curled up and fell asleep. Nobody could find him and he was eventually sent home in disgrace.
5 Marcus Willis The British tennis junior found it tough to rise early at the Australian Open, and then turned up without his rackets. The LTA promptly put him on a 24-hour flight home to sleep it off.
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6 Miles Byrne Ian Woosnam's caddie put an extra club in his bag for the final round of The Open, costing his boss £220,000 in prize-money. A fortnight later, he overslept. The next week, he was working as a builder.
7 Ryan Babel Left out of the Dutch side for a Euro 2008 qualifier after twice oversleeping. It's pure coincidence the Kop think he's slept his way through Liverpool's season.
8 Muttiah Muralitharan Boxing Day, 2004. Due in a village near Galle for a meeting with his manager, the Sri Lankan spin wizard overslept and left Colombo late, narrowly missing the catastrophic tsunami.
9 Terrell Owens The wide receiver's favourite party trick is to fall asleep in team meetings and then cite a mysterious, undiagnosed sleeping disorder. The Dallas Cowboys' follow-up party trick is to then fine him, and fine him heavily. And when Owens scored a touchdown against Washington Redskins in November, he pretended to sleep on the ball. Unsurprisingly, he was subsequently fined for that, too.
10 Dorothy Cavis-Brown At midday on the first day of Wimbledon 1964, there was the traditional umpires' cocktail party. At 2pm, Dorothy Cavis-Brown was a Court Three line-judge. Or at least she was, until woken by a far-from-overjoyed player shaking her. The umpires' cocktail party has not taken place since.