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The History of Football

You're Dead to Me

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Football - The World's First Football

Henry the eighth was a bandit, although he played football. He had the world's first football boots made from itallian leather. The game is about physical wrestling of the ball from your opponent. Why is it called football? There are two theories for this. It may have been to do with kicking code as well as carrying code. And again, that will come on when we talk about modern football.

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