New Posts For Thread: England invented soccer football,https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-footballSo it follows imvho,that English people make the rules of the game because they own it in the eyes of the law.this means English people have the right to get rid of VAR if they wish to do so.it started in a place called Rugby/ England.Two villages had a row over a big round rock of stone .so one village pushed the rock into the second village and the second village pushed it back.(ha ha,first ever match finished 1-1So the first village phttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565206621#565206621it started in a place called Rugby/ England.Two villages had a row over a big round rock of stone .so one village pushed the rock into the second village and the second village pushed it back.(ha ha,first ever match finished 1-1So the first village pWed, 28 Jan 2026 13:06:35 -0600It is but Sheffield F.C are the oldest and they are still playing. They were formed by two men who were instrumental in forming the first rules of association football. Their first match wasbetween their A team and their B team as there was no one ehttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565203099#565203099It is but Sheffield F.C are the oldest and they are still playing. They were formed by two men who were instrumental in forming the first rules of association football. Their first match wasbetween their A team and their B team as there was no one eMon, 26 Jan 2026 02:46:58 -0600Oldest professional clubhttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565201597#565201597Oldest professional clubSun, 25 Jan 2026 09:05:23 -0600I thought Notts County was the first club in the English leaguehttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565201589#565201589I thought Notts County was the first club in the English leagueSun, 25 Jan 2026 09:03:27 -0600Sheffield F.C is the first team to play footbal AS WE KNOW IT, for centuries before that there were school , village and college teams playing ball kicking games of all sorts of rules. N,B the Ashbourne village game etc. Rugby was invented in 1823 whhttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565201031#565201031Sheffield F.C is the first team to play footbal AS WE KNOW IT, for centuries before that there were school , village and college teams playing ball kicking games of all sorts of rules. N,B the Ashbourne village game etc. Rugby was invented in 1823 whSun, 25 Jan 2026 03:13:45 -0600There have been many attempts to ban football, from the Middle Ages through to the modern days. The first such law was passed in England in 1314; it was followed by more than 30 in England alone between 1314 and 1667.https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565198141#565198141There have been many attempts to ban football, from the Middle Ages through to the modern days. The first such law was passed in England in 1314; it was followed by more than 30 in England alone between 1314 and 1667.Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:38:11 -0600Dinosaurs invented football. Thats why you choose heads or tails to see who kicks off.https://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565198129#565198129Dinosaurs invented football. Thats why you choose heads or tails to see who kicks off.Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:32:16 -0600There were games of football type sport recorded bylots of civilizations that wrote stuff down.Likely noah enjoyed a kick about as most civilizationshave story of flood.When english explorers in Elizabethan times encounterednatives in the arctic areahttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565198103#565198103There were games of football type sport recorded bylots of civilizations that wrote stuff down.Likely noah enjoyed a kick about as most civilizationshave story of flood.When english explorers in Elizabethan times encounterednatives in the arctic areaFri, 23 Jan 2026 14:18:11 -0600You may well be right LH and I bow to your superior knowledge. I do have an FA Coaching badge (to teach children) and we never got into the origins; I only wrote what I believe I've understood over the years, but I do recall once reading about the Chhttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565198083#565198083You may well be right LH and I bow to your superior knowledge. I do have an FA Coaching badge (to teach children) and we never got into the origins; I only wrote what I believe I've understood over the years, but I do recall once reading about the ChFri, 23 Jan 2026 14:07:15 -0600That’s very controversial Aspro. Association Football has laws, various F.A.’s have rules. Is my understanding. Sorry to be pedantic but when I went to referee school that point was haughtily made clear to me. Which was why I only lasted onehttps://community.betfair.com/football/go/thread/view/94070/31893447/england-invented-soccer-football?post_id=565198003#565198003That’s very controversial Aspro. Association Football has laws, various F.A.’s have rules. Is my understanding. Sorry to be pedantic but when I went to referee school that point was haughtily made clear to me. Which was why I only lasted oneFri, 23 Jan 2026 13:38:26 -0600