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Music Hello and welcome to the Football for Kids podcast with me, Darren Reese.

In this episode, we'll be delving into a subject that I have wanted to do for many, many, many months.

But I needed to find as much information as I possibly could to make it a good one.

It's also an episode which has been requested, quite literally, hundreds and hundreds

of times.

And this episode will be on the subject of the history of football.

Now, before we really get into this episode, a bit of a disclaimer to kick us off, and sorry about that pun.

Football is so old that there are so many different stories of when it begun, how it began,

who it was, why they did it, dates, times, people names, clubs, countries, and pretty much

everything else in between, that it can become quite confusing. So I've

tried to make it as simple and as clear and as accurate as possible. So I hope that you really

enjoy this episode and I really hope that you do plenty of learning. And my last request is just

bear with me. Before we get into the

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