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Brissit brawnis and broken banis Stryfe discorde and waistis wanis Crukit in eild, syne halt withal, This are the bewteis of the fute-ball.
This stone commemorates the exploit of William Webb Ellis, who, with a fine disregard for therules of football as played in his time, first took the ball in his arms and ran with it, thus originating the distinctive feature of the Rugby game.1823.
What happens when a game of football is proposed at Christmas among a party of young men assembled from different schools? Alas! The Eton man is enamoured of his own rules, and turns up his nose at Rugbyas not sufficiently aristocratic; while the Rugbeian retorts that 'bullying'and 'sneaking'are not to his taste, and he is not afraid of his shins, or of a 'maul'or 'scrimmage'.On hearing this the Harrovian pricks up his ears, and though he might previously have sided with Rugby, the insinuation against the courage of those who do not allow 'shinning'arouses his ire, and causes him to refuse to lay with one who has offered it. Thus it is found impossible to get up a game.
Football, in itself, is a grand game fordeveloping a lad physicallyand also morallybut it is a viciousgame when it draws crowds of lads away from playing the game themselves to be merely onlookers at a few paid players.
To watch a football game is to be in prolonged neurotic doubt as to what you're seeing. It's more like an emergency happening at a distance than a game.
We used to get our old players coming to watch training with football magazines in their hands.Now, more often than not, they're checking their share prices.
Let's talk about football or women. 80
They're killing the game with this phoney mystiquetelling people that a guy needs the abilities of a brain surgeon to play left-guard for the Colts. Football is simply a game to keep the coalminers off the streets.
All that I know surely about morality and the obligations of man, I owe to football.
They know on the Continent that European football without the English islike a hot dog without themustard.
Football hooligans? Well, there are 92 club chairmen for a start.
No foteball player be used or suffered within the City of London and the liberties thereof upon pain of imprisonment.
There is more politics in football than in politics.
In football it is widely acknowledged that if both sides agree to cheat, cheating is fair.
College football today is one of the last great strongholds of genuine old-fashioned American hypocrisy.
The one passion of my life has been footballthe most exhilarating game I know, and the strongest protest against selfishness, without sermonizing, that was ever put before a thoughtful people.
Football is an art more central to our culture than anything the Arts Council deigns to recognize.
I'm looking forward to seeing some sexy football.
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day likea football, and it will be round and full at evening.
Twice a week the winter through Here I stood to keep the goal: Football then was fighting sorrow For the young man's soul.
College football is a sport that bears thesame relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
It is statute and ordained that in na place of the Realme there be used Fute-ball,Golfe, or uther sik unproffitable sportes.
I want to retire at 50. I want to play cricket in the summer and geriatric football in the winter, and sing in the choir.
Being inpoliticsislikebeing a football coach.Youhaveto be smart enough to know the game and stupid enough to think it is important.
I prefer players not to be too good or clever at other things. It means they concentrate on football.
Football is like a religion to me. I worship the ball, and I treat it like a god. Too many players thinkof a football as something to kick.They should be taught to caress it and to treat it like a precious gem.
If this can be termed the century of the common man, then soccer, of all sports, is surely his game In a world haunted by thehydrogenand napalm bomb, thefootball field is a place where sanity and hope are still left unmolested.
Then strip lads, and to it, though sharp be the weather, And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall, There are worse things in life than a tumble on the heather And life is itself a game of football.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Of course I didn't take my wife to see Rochdale as an anniversary present.It was her birthday.Would Ihavegot married during the football season? And anyway it wasn't Rochdale, it was Rochdale reserves.
It was an ideal day for footballtoo cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.
For as concerning football playing, I protest unto you it may be rather called a friendly kind of fight than a play or recreation, a bloody or murmuring practice than a fellowly sport or pastime.
Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel- picking, murder, homicide, and agreateffusionof blood, as daily experiences teaches.
Agents do nothing for the good of football. I'd like to see them lined up against a wall and machine-gunned some accountants and solicitors with them.
A football team is like a beautiful woman.When you do not tell her so, she forgets she is beautiful.
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but it is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
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