In 1863, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, the first secretary of the Football Association, established the offside rule to prevent unfair attacking advantage. The VAR era reimagines it as a kind of border control in favor of the defender.

“Iran’s 1998 victory over the United States was the kind of geopolitical spectacle Eurovision could only dream of staging.” Our aggressive blend of current affairs and orthodox clue style returns, in @sahar_tav’s twenty ninth crossword.