#336 | “The British Disease” | A Short History of Football Hooliganism in the UK
English Learning for Curious Minds
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Kick Off - The History of Football
12th century football was an incredibly violent lawless game. There were no referees and people would do anything they could to stop the ball from heading in the wrong direction. In 1349, King Edward III banned football due to the violent rivalries and mob mentality it was creating. The first recorded case of hooliganism in modern football was at an 1885 match between Preston North End and Aston Villa - two of England's oldest clubs. On that day, the supporters who were described in newspapers as howling ruffs decided to do something known in British dialect as kick off. And this is an interesting example of an expression that's a noun and a phrasal verb with two very
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