Episode #71- Who Invented Your Favourite Sport?

Our Fake History

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History, Education, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 July 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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In this final episode of Season Three Sebastian turns his attention to sports! The question of who invented a particular sport can sometimes be a matter of national pride. As such sports history can become hotly contested. It should then come as no surprise that the origin stories of many popular sports are often riddled with historical myths. Tune in and find out how A Little Pretty Pocket Book, a civil war hero, and Sebastian losing his citizenship all play a role in the story.
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0:00.0	It's the summer of 2018 and that means that the world has just witnessed another FIFA
0:14.1	world cup.
0:16.0	The month-long soccer tournament, or as the rest of the world calls it, football tournament,
0:21.8	is by far the most watched sporting event on the planet.
0:26.8	The game of football is easily the world's most popular organized sport.
0:33.1	A recent survey concluded that roughly 4 billion human beings on the planet consider themselves
0:40.4	a fan of the game.
0:42.6	It absolutely dwarves the world's next most popular sport, which is cricket.
0:48.7	Cricket only has a poultry 2.5 billion fans by comparison.
0:54.5	Well, there you go.
0:57.2	Indeed, it seems like soccer is the world's game.
1:01.8	The sport has become so universal that it's hard to imagine that it had any one particular
1:07.9	geographic point of origin.
1:11.5	But this particular world cup reminded many fair weather fans like myself that the birthplace
1:18.6	of football is a matter of national pride for at least one country in the tournament.
1:25.7	As the 2018 world cup progressed and the real contenders began to reveal themselves, there
1:32.0	was one group of fans that became particularly loud.
1:37.0	And they had a chant that was, well, interesting.
1:42.6	Perhaps you heard this one.
1:44.6	It's coming up.
1:46.6	It's coming up.
1:48.6	It's coming up.
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