Tag: Football
The cultural history of football: ‘No murder or manslaughter’ – How the beautiful game has changed over the ages
Anyone who thinks that things get pretty rough on today's football pitches probably shouldn't look too closely at how the game was played in the Middle Ages. In terms of physical brutality, the game was easily the equal of those other highly popular sports: stone throwing and fist fighting. There was no need for a pitch and the town gates acted as the goals.
Football Was For Real Men In Tudor England!!!
An Oxford University academic is leading a project to study coroners' reports of accidental deaths in Tudor England and it shows that football was the most dangerous!!