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What's more fun is the theory that "football" is not about how one contacts the ball but more about how one plays on foot rather than on a horse. The term "foot
by phamilton 5y ago
What's more fun is the theory that "football" is not about how one contacts the ball but more about how one plays on foot rather than on a horse. The term "football" was derisive towards the games peasants play vs nobility playing games like polo.
- jonwinstanley 5y agoI like this theory but in England, the standardised game was played mostly by the wealthy nobility around the years 1850-1880. Working class people, such as in the teams from mill towns like Preston, Darwin and Blackburn joined the FA cup later on.
- phamilton 5y agoI too have seen The English Game :) Competitive play may have started with the wealthy, but football had been played in various forms as early as the 15th century. Wikipedia has a lot of good citations on the topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_(word) As with most organically adopted words, nothing is clear cut, but there's quite a lot of evidence that the foot in football is about being on foot rather than on a horse.
- jonwinstanley 5y agoHahaha you’re so right, I’d never have mentioned Darwen before I saw that show!