Football has always been popular — of that there can be no doubt. Phil found this video today which (starting at around 1:20) tells the story of a football being found behind the panelling in a bedchamber once used by Mary Queen of Scots:
That makes the ball that was discovered well over 400 years old.
The reason that The Ball’s “Olympian” journey kicks off from Battersea Park is not because it celebrates the first game of football, but because the game was the first to be played under FA rules. It is the astonishing spread of those rules which allows the world to play the game together — and that’s something well worth celebrating…
Written by Christian Wach on Friday, October 9th, 2009
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