A strange little side quest
Football Heads: England 2019-20 (Premier League) may feel immediate, but the ideas around football have been evolving for a very long time. Association football's first unified Laws of the Game were drawn up in London in 1863. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. Not bad for a few facts hiding behind a Play button.