The Football Ramble’s Guide To… The Original Rules of Football
Football Ramble
Stak Production
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In December 1863, a bunch of the most Victorian-sounding men imaginable gathered together to hammer out what would become the foundation of the beautiful game: the English Football Association’s rules for football.
But – by jove! – not much of what they agreed makes sense today. Marcus, Jim and Pete take you through it on today’s Guide!
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| 0:46.2 | I'm Pete Donaldson, and I'm Jim Campbell. |
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| 0:53.0 | We do what we want, when we want, how we want, that we do recognise in a lot of cases, |
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| 1:00.3 | descended into chaos. |
| 1:01.2 | Like in any system you have to have rules. |
| 1:03.1 | Otherwise, anarchy. |
| 1:05.0 | One of those cases is football, but the rules haven't always been the way they are today. |
| 1:11.6 | When representatives of various London clubs sat down to once and for all, |
| 1:15.6 | thrash out a definitive set of rules in December 1863, what they came up with, |
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