JANUARY:
...in 1977 Moral campaigner Mary Whitehouse petitions the government to send Billy Bremner back to Scotland after a series of violent challenges which she described as "symptomatic of a permissive society"
...in 2001 Conspiracy theorist Keith Gillespie tells his Blackburn teammates that 9/11 was an inside job
...in 1897 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes his unpopular short story Sherlock Holmes case of the Missing Wing Back
FEBRUARY:
...in 1704 Old Etonian Casual Engineers mock "philistine" opponents Wanderers for attempting to "score" in newly-introduced "goals"
...in 1989 Sooty's sidekick Sweep is introduced to mirror the tactical adulation for sweepers at the time
...in 1994 Confused Giggs discovers loss of form is a product of a small stone in his left boot
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