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Re: A request for information.
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Fri, 4 Aug 2000 20:11:05 GMT
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In lugnet.football, Ian Rutherford writes:
> > Does any reader of this group have a simple history of Football(Soccer)?
> >
> > I mean the actual game not the Lego range.
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> > Thanks
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> > Alex
> I found this description in Paul Harvey's The Rest of the Story, by Paul
> Aurdant. I am not directly quoting it...
> During the quarter century between A. D. 1016 and 1042, England was occupied
> by the Danes, that is Denmark had successfully invaded and taken over
> England.
> Anyhow, Danes must have been pretty rough because the hatred for them
> lingered a long time after they were driven out.
> So, the Danes are gone and here is this anonymous Englishman, and he is
> digging around in an old battlefield and he digs up a skull of a long dead
> Danish soldier. This Englishman was old enough to remember the Danish
> occupation and looking at the skull kinda brought it all back to him... and
> was he angry! He threw that skull on the ground and he kicked it! Boy, did
> it feel good! So, he kicked it again! And again, and again.
> That's when some people walking by noticed him kicking the skull around the
> pasture. When he explained what he was doing and how good it made him feel,
> they agreed that the Danes had been pretty rotten to the English. So, they
> joined him! Of course shoe toes weren't all that sturdy back then. When
> the new game of Danish Skull Kicking finally caught on throughout the
> countryside, there were a lot of sore feet. That's when someone got the
> idea of inflating a cow's bladder.
> And that, according to the above mentioned book is how Soccer or Football or
> Rugby, came to be.
> Please note that I do not know if this is true, it is all I can find at the
> moment.
> Ian Rutherford
Event if false its certainly an intresting story!
Do you have a CIP record for the book?
Anyhow the reason I asked was that I was trying to put together a Lego(R)
equivilant to the meccano magazine and wanted to include a pages on Lego(R)
Football and a history of the game seemed like a good idea.
Does anyone know when 'association' rules were created and if so why?
Alex
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