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The History of Football

You're Dead to Me

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Shakespeare and Football

The first written source for us is from the anglo saxon period. We've also got references to football in a couple of shakespeare's plays. So and he's es gie fron midlands, isn't he? He's talking about ordinary people playing a kick about. It's essentially a folk games, a people's game for a long, old time.

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