A REPORT BY DR. CHESAPEAKE MARCHPANE, SPECIAL TO THE RUN OF PLAY

ST. ALBANS AND ABBOTS LANGLEY
On a gray, overcast day in 251 A.D., St. Alban, the first English martyr, was decapitated by Roman soldiers on a hill overlooking the settlement of Verulamium. According to the legend preserved, nearly 500 years later, in the Historia [...]

After Coventry City scored this goal in 1970, the FA put on its soberest gray suits and urgently convened in a very serious room where they changed the rules of the game to prevent anything like it from ever happening again. And it's probably thanks to their diligence that football was not torn apart [...]