Salcedo's entry into heresy and its rarefied society--the rich had access to books and travel to the Protestant north--hinges on what most would consider obscure doctrinal points, such as whether one is saved by faith alone or by grace and good works.
According to estimates, the lives of more than 5, 000 cancer patients could be saved each year in England alone if the country matched the best European survival rates.
By scrapping the escalator up to 5, 000 jobs could be saved "in the first year alone" and the closure of "hundreds of pubs in all of our communities" would be prevented, he argued.
It is all a far cry from the final day of the 2007-08 Premier League season, when Murphy's 76th-minute winner against Portsmouth saved the Cottagers from relegation on goal difference alone.