Sikh headwear: Wikipedia entry on dastar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dastar.
Jack Kemp on his opposition to the World Cup: Quoted in Franklin Foer, How Soccer Explains The World (2004), p. 241.
Santa Monica, Los Angeles and the homeless: Los Angeles Times, March 17, 2010.
Production of pornography in San Fernando Valley: Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Valley#Adult_entertainment.
Funeral director requirements: http://www.business.ftc.gov/documents/bus05-complying-funeral-rule#misreps.
Referees gain complete authority over matches: IFAB minutes, 1891; David Goldblatt, The Ball Is Round: A Global History of Soccer (2006).
Referee’s authority over “facts connected with play”: Laws of the Game, Law 5.
Laws of the Game reordered in 1938: IFAB minutes, 1938. FIFA.com: http://www.fifa.com/classicfootball/history/the-laws/from-1863-to-present.html
Development of the Offside Law: Julian Carosi, “The History of Offside” (2006), found at www.corshamref.net; Percy M. Young, A History of British Football (1968), p. 67-8, 75, 79; Stanley Rous and Donald Ford, A History of the Laws of Association Football (1974), p. 15-16, 20; Ken Bray, How To Score: Soccer and the Beautiful Game (2006), p. 21-2, 25; Goldblatt, p. 36; Stanley Lover, “Soccer Rules Are Brilliant,” FIFA Magazine (1999).
Pacoima history: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacoima#History.
San Fernando Gardens history: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Fernando_Gardens.
Charles Maclay: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maclay; Florence Cunningham, Saratoga’s First Hundred Years (1967).