Where Did Soccer Start?
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As a(n ex-)Brit, I can say without fear of contradiction (fingers crossed) that it began in the scepter'd isle of Shakespeare - there are centuries-old traditions of a very much rougher precursor being played across wide tracts of countryside by men from competing neighboring villages. Of course, in those days they weren't paid as much...
moNOtheist
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June 22, 2018
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@dede18 It was, I think, first played - in modern times, at least - in the nineteenth century at a public (that is, in the British way, very private and very expensive) school in the town of Rugby in the British Midlands (perhaps to elevate it from the football played by the great unwashed - at my own school in the Sixties, the rugby teacher was always disdainful of soccer and its "pansy" players whose sin, as far as I could understand, was to run around the pitch without using their arms... presumably they should have been more manfully employed in tackling and trying to drag down players of the opposing team).
Having said that, I'm sure that something like rugby, in which the ball can be picked up and carried across the pitch, has been played at other periods.
What about hooligans?
CraeftSmith
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June 22, 2018
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In Britain, the first examples of football hooligans (at least in any numbers) dates to the late Sixties and the appearance of skinhead culture.
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