The first thing to do for the Court of Justice of the European Union with an incoming case is to choose the judge rapporteur and the Advocate General responsible for the opinion. The date of registration determines the President of the Court, responsible for the nomination of the judge rapporteur, and the First Advocate General, responsible for the nomination of the advocate general competent for the case. In the Bosman case the date of registration was 6 October 1993. The next day, a partial replacement of the Court took place. So the outgoing President took no decision on the Bosman case. The nomination of the judge rapporteur took place after that date. Ole Due was the Court’s President, and Marc Darmon the First Advocate General. Together, they nominated the same persons originally nominated for the first Bosman case C-340/90, registered 15 November 1990. The President (already Ole Due) had then nominated as judge rapporteur Federico Mancini, and the then First Advocate General Francis Jacobs had nominated myself as competent Advocate General. In the second Bosman case C-269/92, registered on 15 June 1992, these nominations had been maintained. On proposition of the judge rapporteur and the Advocate General the full assembly of the Court decided to keep the case before the full court. Mancini was a football fan and reader of the ‘Gazetta dello Sport’. His référendaire Vittorio Di Bucci1 was in charge of the case. I had a référendaire named Gerhard Grill,2 who was also very knowledgeable about football. He was charged with the preparation of the case.