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Thread #134000 Message #3045251
Posted By: Dave MacKenzie
02-Dec-10 - 06:35 PM
Thread Name: BS: England World Cup 2018 bid
Subject: RE: BS: England World Cup 2018 bid
"I don't recall the Chinese football league of the late 19th century"
'In China, under the Han Dynasty, which ended in AD 220, footballers......played Tsu-Chu (kickball) on the Emperor's birthday.'
'The Roman legions developed, probably from the Greek games, the game of harpastum, a war-game with a ball that came three-quarters of the way to modern football'.