Do you have a pad plugged in? If so, unplug it and it should stop happening. It occasionally happens when my 360 pad's analog stick isn't properly aligned.
Not quite to that extent, but if I manage a team with good depth and good familiarity with a variety of tactics across multiple competitions then I tinker something rotten. I always have at least a couple of players who are played if able in every match, but I rotate so that opponents never...
I'd guess it would only happen to regens, to avoid any implications involving real people who, even if not uncomfortable being seen as gay, just aren't.
I do agree that it's a fantastic addition. Maybe they could take it a step further and involve Stonewall and the Rainbow Laces in future...
That does seem a little excessive, time-wise, for that amount of leagues. What database size did you go with, and how many players did it say it was loading?
Not necessarily the biggest success in the world of FM, but I was quite happy with my first real stint in a save leading me to winning my first ever Serie C in Brazil... on away goals. Never won a league title on away goals before.
Games highlighted are the ones I was in charge for.
In PE at school, our team's keeper got his nose busted pretty bad saving a penalty with his face. We told him it was more traditional to do with with the gloves, but he said they wouldn't have fit over his head.
My local shop used to sell Bourbon BBQ Pretzels, funnily enough. Some of those, a bottle of Apple Smirnoff, Cheery Coke and access to the In-Game Editor sounds like quite a good combo.