NFL Wembley: Sky Sports talks to NFL UK boss Alistair Kirkwood as tickets go on sale

These are exciting times in the NFL, not only do we know who will contest the Super Bowl in New York next month, but across the Atlantic in the UK tickets have gone on sale for the biggest year yet of the International Series, with three games being played at Wembley this autumn.

Any thoughts of a game away from Wembley somewhere else in the UK or Ireland? Not right now, no. There are many good reasons why we stay in London and the most important is probably the least obvious and that's we're asking a massive team organisation to come in the middle of their season in the most compressed season in any sports league. Sometimes it's the first and only time these players will play abroad so you need to minimise the unknowns so if you can keep them in the same hotels, same training bases as other teams have been, then their people can make the arrangements much more easily. For them it's a business trip, that's the good and bad thing about a regular season game is that it matters and because it matters we always need to remember that and although it would be nice to do certain other things, first and foremost it's about the teams coming here. We've also got an agreement with Wembley through 2015-16 and that ensures we've got certainty to be able to plan with. So while I appreciate fans around the country would like games to be closer we need to stick to Wembley for now. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell seems fully behind a UK team - is it any closer? He's really supportive of everything we do. But you're only as good as your last game, and every time we stage a game we try to make it the benchmark. Last year was a benchmark going to two games and then quickly we're going to three. It's all about momentum and at the moment off the field in this country we've got momentum, so we just want to keep that going at the same pace. But there's no timescale about any proposed UK team, it's about getting it right. All tickets for the three NFL games are on sale now via www.ticketmaster.co.uk/NFL.