ABSTRACT
The modern history of sport and the law is divisible into three separate stages: 'reality', 'antiquity' and 'contemporaneity and the future'. Reality is traceable to the justifiable public accusation by the former Football Association Chief Executive, the late Ted (E.A.) Croker, that I had invented the subject. 1 Antiquity identifies legislative and structural sources from ancient Greece and Rome via medieval and early modern Europe, comparable to identifiable current circumstances and conditions. Contemporaneity explains the state of play today and its projection into the future.
