The editor decided to kill the story.

Ah, you whoreſon loggerhead, you were borne to do me ſhame.

to throw down the glove, i.e. to offer a challenge; to take up the glove, to accept it

Afterwards, Gareth Southgate conjured up the modern English pastoral when he said he was glad to have delivered goals for a public watching at home on a “warm Sunday afternoon”. A great vision of barbecues ablaze, televisions repositioned and six times a boozy roar across the back gardens.