The English football History

Football was played in England as distant back as medieval times. The modern global game of organization football was first codified in 1863 in London [citation needed]. The impetus for this was to unify English public school and university football games. The first written confirmation of a football match came in about 1170, when William Fitzstephen wrote of his vacation to London, "After dinner all the youths of the city goes out into the fields for the very popular game of ball." He also went on to talk about that each trade had their own team, "The elders, the fathers, and the men of wealth come on horseback to sight the contests of their juniors, and in their style sport with the young men; and there seems to be aroused in these elders a moving of natural heat by performance so much motion and by involvement in the joys of unrestrained youth." Kicking ball games are described in England from 1280. In 1314, Edward II, then the King of England, said about a sport of football and the use of footballs, "certain tumults arising from huge footballs in the fields of the public, from which a lot of evils may arise. An account of an exclusively kicking "football" game from Nottinghamshire in the fifteenth century bears comparison to connection football. By the 16th centuries references to organized teams and goals had appeared. There is confirmation for refereed, team football games being played in English schools since at least 1581. The eighteenth century Gymnastic Society of London is, questionably, the world's first football club.

The Cambridge rules, first drawn up at Cambridge University in 1848, were mainly powerful in the development of succeeding codes, as well as association football. The Cambridge Rules were written at Trinity College, Cambridge, at a meeting attended by council from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury schools. They were not universally adopted.[4] During the 1850s, many clubs unrelated to schools or universities were formed throughout the English-speaking world, to engage in activity various forms of football. Some came up with their own distinct codes of rules, most notably, Sheffield Football Club (the world's oldest club), formed by former public school pupils in 1857, which led to arrangement of the Sheffield & Hallamshire Football Association in 1867. In 1862, John Charles Thring of Uppingham School also devised an powerful set of rules. His brother, headmaster of the school Reverend Edward Thring, was a advocate of football as an substitute to masturbation, seen as weakening the boys, and through football hoped to give confidence their development of supposed manly attributes which were present in the sport.( These ongoing efforts contribute to the formation of The Football Association (The FA) in 1863, which first met on 26 October 1863 at the Freemasons' Tavern in Great Queen Street, London.[4] The Sheffield FA played by its own system until the 1870s with the FA fascinating some of its system until there was little differentiation between the games. A match between Sheffield and Hallam F.C. on 29 December 1862 was one of the first matches to be recorded in a newspaper. With the modern passing game believed to have been innovated in London and with England being home to the oldest football clubs in the world dating from at least 1857, the world's oldest football trophy, the Youdan Cup, the first national contest, the FA Cup founded in 1871, and the first ever association football league (1888) as well as England having the first national football team that hosted the world's first ever international football match, a 1-1 draw with Scotland on 5 March 1870 at The Oval in London,[9] England is careful the home of the game of football.

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