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Teddy Bears and Penalty Shootouts

The Anthropocene Reviewed

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The Importance of History in Football

The rules of contemporary football weren't set until 1863 when the English Football Association was formed. FIFA adopted the penalty shootout in 1970, just a few years before I was born. And it has since given us many of football's most iconic moments such as Brandy Chastain's World Cup winning spot kick in 1999.

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