The Early Days of Football

There used to be no lightering near the opponent's goal, which later became offside rule. I really like in the early days of football how things just went as people decided on the spur of the moment. There was a match in 1894 in Sunderland versus Derby County. The referee hadn't arrived because he'd missed his connecting train. And so they decided to go for it anyway. They ended up playing a three-half match. Do we know where the final score was? Yeah. It was five-nil. So Sunderland's still one, but really it should have been eight-nil. When the goalkeeper who had lost the match, eight-nil was asked why they'd