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This was the main football game played in Britain. as people worked most of the time and didnt have time to play sports and mob football was the only kind there was in the pre-industrial era
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London's Gymnastic Society which was founded in the mid-18th century and ceased playing matches
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The first documented club to bear in the title a reference to being a 'football club' were called "The Foot-Ball Club"
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association football and rugby football. split off on their different association was instituted in England. as they were goin there spratrate ways as one was have the ball at the feet and other have the ball in the hand
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These were the first set of written rules (or code) for any form of football. This further assisted the spread of the Rugby game.
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cambridge rules
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sheffield rules
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rules were developed further due to the ‘Oxbridge melting pot’. Cambridge Rules
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Any attacking player ahead of the ball was deemed to be offside - meaning early tactical systems featured as many as eight forwards, as the only means of advancing the ball was by dribbling or scrimmaging as in rugby
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introduced Saturday half day
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kicking the ball from the ground
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between sides representing England and Scotland
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The oldest national soccer competition is the English FA
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when the defending team puts the ball at there sides back line then the attacking gets to kick it in from the corner
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used a whistle for the first time.
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Northern team Blackburn beat Old Etonians
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Professionalism was sanctioned
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is recognised as the longest running association football league.
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some countries competitions were suspended and players signed up to fight
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competitive football was suspended in England
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futsalrules
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most football competitions were abandoned as the country's attention turned to the war effort
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65th season of competitive football
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England played 29 unofficial wartime internationals
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when British European Airways flight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway at Munich-Riem Airport, West Germany
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The trophy was found just seven days later wrapped in newspaper at the bottom of a suburban garden hedge in Upper Norwood, South London, by a dog named Pickles
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the worst fire disaster in the history of English football. It occurred during a league match in front of record numbers of spectators
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resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others, at a match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, England
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bench rules
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banning goalkeepers from handling deliberate back-passes
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the first goal scored in extra-time would be the winner
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referees use the spray to enforce the rules as to the maximum distance that members of the opposing team can come close to the ball during a free kick, as well as the spot from which the kick is taken.