| This wasn't a real football drill, where the banging of heads can make one's teeth chatter or develop headaches in those merely watching. |
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| College football coaches spend a lot of time recruiting high school athletes. |
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| He is a dark horse, but I did find out that he once played football professionally. |
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| These were very early days for international football, and the official history of FIFA describes the competition as having been a failure. |
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| Association football is the most popular sport and the Scottish Cup is the world's oldest national trophy. |
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| The football game was an epic battle between two great teams. |
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| Manchester United has the second highest average attendance of European football clubs only behind Borussia Dortmund. |
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| Manchester United is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with one of the highest average home attendance in Europe. |
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| Nottingham Forest Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England. |
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| Villa Park is the largest football stadium in the English Midlands, and the eighth largest stadium in England. |
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| Thus, it was the first English ground to stage international football in three different centuries. |
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| Aston Villa have a unique relationship with the Acorns Children's Hospice charity that is groundbreaking in English football. |
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| As can be seen across the whole of English football, the hooligan groups have now been marginalised. |
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| In 1904, Gus Mears acquired the Stamford Bridge athletics stadium with the aim of turning it into a football ground. |
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| Most football clubs were founded first, and then sought grounds in which to play, but Chelsea were founded for Stamford Bridge. |
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| The graphite and tangerine strip often appears in lists of the worst football kits ever. |
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| During the 1970s and 1980s in particular, Chelsea supporters were associated with football hooliganism. |
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| In 1930, Chelsea featured in one of the earliest football films, The Great Game. |
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| With a new home and First Division football, attendances were more than double those at the Manor Ground, and Arsenal's budget grew rapidly. |
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| New, attacking football, an overhaul of dietary and fitness practices, and efficiency with money have defined his reign. |
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| Most football clubs aren't listed on an exchange, which makes direct comparisons of their values difficult. |
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| As one of the most successful teams in the country, Arsenal have often featured when football is depicted in the arts in Britain. |
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| The league wins and points they have accumulated are the second most in English top flight football. |
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| Leeds United Football Club is a professional association football club in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. |
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| They play in the Championship, the second tier of the English football league system. |
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| Sir Alex Ferguson has said that Elland Road has one of the most intimidating atmospheres in European football. |
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| Today it is mainly used to distinguish Tottenham fans from other football supporters. |
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| Robson led Ipswich to two major trophies and several seasons in top flight European football. |
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| The UEFA Cup, also known as the Coupe UEFA, is the trophy awarded annually by UEFA to the football club that wins the UEFA Europa League. |
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| Bowls, archery and several other sports have been played at Lord's in the past, but never rugby or football. |
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| The Sydney Football Stadium was one of two venues in Sydney that were used for football during the 2000 Olympic Games. |
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| Association football goalkeepers also often return the ball to play with drop kicks. |
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| The kick was once in wide use in both Australian rules football and gridiron football, but is today rarely seen in either sport. |
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| If they had followed the football model, then we wouldn't be in this position. |
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| There has been talk between the club and local football team Bath City, although the talks have never amounted to anything. |
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| The main sporting arena is John Smith's Stadium, home to both the football team and rugby league side. |
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| The stadium is home to Huddersfield Giants and Huddersfield Town football team. |
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| The England national rugby league team represent England in international rugby league football tournaments. |
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| The Great Britain national rugby league team represents Great Britain in rugby league football. |
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| On 14 June 1913, St Helens Recs joined the Northern Union after defecting from rugby union and association football. |
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| Prior to this, in particular when St Helens were playing simply rugby football, they shared the City Ground with St Helens Recs. |
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| In their first match at the new ground, St Helens beat Manchester Rangers, played under rugby football rules. |
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| As the football club grew, it became a useful recruiting tool for the Huddersfield Athletic Club. |
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| It hosted two Challenge Cup finals in 1908 and 1910 and hosted one football match. |
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| He attended Cameron Heights Collegiate Institute for high school, where he excelled in Canadian football, soccer and basketball. |
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| He has also appeared on the Sky Sports Saturday morning football show Soccer AM the week before a fight. |
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| Alongside his interest for racing, he played association football for his school team with England international midfielder Ashley Young. |
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| Valencia CF will carry Honda Cars Valencia insignia on their football kits. |
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| The phrase is also associated with Ulster loyalism and can sometimes be heard at the same point before Northern Ireland football matches. |
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| In recognition of these efforts with youth football, the country recently hosted the CECAFA youth football competitions. |
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| Ten football teams contest the Faroe Islands Premier League, currently ranked 51st by UEFA's League coefficient. |
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| The country is also a full member of FIFA and therefore the Faroe Islands football team also competes in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers. |
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| On 9 July 2015 the national football team of the Faroes climbed another 28 places up on the FIFA ranking. |
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| Popular sports include association football, track and field, handball and skiing. |
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| Gaelic football and hurling are the traditional sports of Ireland as well as most popular spectator sports. |
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| The Republic of Ireland national football team plays at international level and is administered by the Football Association of Ireland. |
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| Prior to the introduction of football at the beginning of the 20th century, Cammag was the island's national sport. |
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| The Gibraltar national football team was accepted into UEFA in 2013 in time for the 2016 European Championships. |
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| Colonial officials promoted and subsidized gymnastics, table games, and dance and helped football spread to French colonies. |
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| The organisers had proposed a similar division in the football tournament, but the BOA demurred. |
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| The Northern Ireland national football team represents Northern Ireland in international association football. |
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| The stadium itself would be used for both football and rugby union, with Glentoran and Ulster Rugby intended as tenants. |
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| The Green and White Army is the name given to the fans that follow the Northern Ireland national football team. |
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| Another bonus point victory followed in front of a world record Rugby World Cup crowd of 89,267 at the home of England football, Wembley Stadium. |
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| They are the oldest city rivals in Scotland and the Edinburgh derby is one of the oldest derby matches in world football. |
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| Belfast has several notable sports teams playing a diverse variety of sports such as football, Gaelic games, rugby, cricket, and ice hockey. |
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| The Northern Ireland national football team, ranked 43rd in October 2014 in the FIFA World Rankings, plays its home matches at Windsor Park. |
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| Jersey national football team plays in the annual Muratti competition among others. |
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| European model sports clubs were formed with the spreading popularity of football matches in 19th century Constantinople. |
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| Association football and volleyball are among the country's most popular sports, with a rich history of international competitions. |
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| The rules were first drafted in England in 1863 by Ebenezer Cobb Morley, and the UK has the oldest football clubs in the world. |
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| Early references to dribbling come from accounts of medieval football games in England. |
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| The islands are represented by the Shetland football team who regularly compete in the Island Games. |
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| The town also has a junior football club who play in the North Region SuperLeague at Glenury Park. |
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| They have also won more domestic top tier league titles than any other football club in the world. |
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| Several precursors to the modern football codes were highly popular in Anglesey. |
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| There are football pitches, two golf courses, a pitch and putt course and a horse riding school. |
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| The Dundee Derby is one of the most highly anticipated fixtures in Scottish football. |
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| Today's association of football with the working classes began in 1885 when the FA changed its rules to allow professional players. |
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| The Government announced in 2006 that it would provide substantial financial support to Bermuda's cricket and football teams. |
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| The field surrounded by the track is used for association football matches as well as other field sports. |
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| Other organised sports leagues include softball, beach volleyball, Gaelic football and ultimate frisbee. |
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| The Guernsey Gaels was founded in 1996 and competes in the European Gaelic football leagues. |
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| This poseur was riding like a monkey humping a football, but I blew past him. |
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| Salmond's main interests outside of work and politics are golf, horse racing, football, and reading. |
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| He supports the Scotland national football team and Heart of Midlothian FC, and sometimes attends matches. |
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| He was a fan of the Derry Gaelic football and hurling teams and played both sports when he was younger. |
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| His older brother Tom played Gaelic football for Derry and is regarded as one of the county's best ever players. |
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| They formed what became known as 'The Plymouth Argylls', after the association football team, since both ships were Plymouth manned. |
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| Association football is the most popular sport in Qatar, both in terms of players and spectators. |
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| Though football is the most popular sport, other team sports have experienced considerable success at senior level. |
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| Popular sports include football, basketball, cricket, swimming, sailing, table tennis and badminton. |
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| Since 1973, the fire services of Leicester and twin city Krefeld have played each other in an annual 'friendly' football match. |
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| He played a number of sports, including cricket, football, golf and was made captain of the squash team. |
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| Clapton is a fan of English Premier League football club West Bromwich Albion. |
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| Victoria Adams started dating football player David Beckham in 1997 after they had met at a charity football match. |
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| Although seen as a mostly solitary and private person, Lowry enjoyed attending football matches and was an ardent supporter of Manchester City. |
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| Although Richard also played cricket, tennis, and table tennis, biographer Bragg notes rugby union football to be his greatest interest. |
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| The Sun has been involved in many controversies in its history, including its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. |
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| League systems are used in a number of sports, especially association football, rugby league, and rugby union. |
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| At all levels including the youth teams the Welsh national team draws players primarily from clubs in the English football league system. |
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| Gould's time in charge of Wales is seen as a dark period by Welsh football fans. |
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| Despite this, Welsh players Aaron Ramsey and Gareth Bale expressed their interest in representing the Great Britain Olympic football team. |
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| Despite this change, Great Britain did not enter a football team again until London won the right to host the 2012 Games. |
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| A Great Britain women's Olympic football team also competed at the 2012 Games. |
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| The first football matches between national teams were arranged by the FA, who invited English and Scottish players to form representative teams. |
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| For the 1908 Olympic Games in London, the FA persuaded the IOC to include a football tournament, which they organised. |
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| Great Britain won the first Olympics football tournament in 1908, which was hosted in London. |
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| The football tournament was organised by the FA and all the matches were played at White City Stadium. |
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| This resulted in the FA leaving FIFA, as well as withdrawing from the 1924 and 1928 football tournaments. |
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| There was no football tournament at the 1932 games, so Britain's return to Olympic football came at the 1936 Summer Olympics. |
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| Due to the success of the London 2012 Olympic bid, the United Kingdom gained the right to enter a team in the football tournament as host nation. |
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| He also expressed fears that coverage of the football team would overshadow interest in the other competitors. |
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| It was formed in 1873, making it the second oldest national football association in the world. |
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| One of the most prominent roles of the chief executive is to hire and dismiss Scotland national football team managers. |
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| The Scottish Football Association encourages quality of governance in football clubs through a system of club licence awards. |
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| The trophy was intended to raise the standard of play and organisation of football in Wales. |
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| Before World War II it did not even have complete control over football in the whole nation. |
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| The case for Wales as a football nation was particularly weak in foreign eyes given the absence of any national league. |
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| Over 100 years after the formation of its national association, Wales finally became a football nation with its own national league. |
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| It organised the Ireland national football team which, after 1921, became the Northern Ireland national football team. |
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| The IFA was formed in 1880 by seven football clubs mostly in the Belfast area, as the organising body for the sport across all of Ireland. |
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| It runs a Women's Cup, Women's League and the Northern Ireland women's national football team. |
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| The club played an early version of rugby football and was formed by old boys of the Rugby School. |
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| In this category, it places rugby union at the second place in England behind football. |
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| Rugby union is not the national sport in Scotland, being far behind football. |
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| Another reason for the fall in the Welsh union game can be placed on the improvement of football in Wales. |
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| During the 1860s, 1870s and 1880s, rugby, along with association football, started to become popular in Ireland. |
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| The Scotland national rugby league team represent Scotland in international rugby league football tournaments. |
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| Scotland play in a dark blue strip, similar to the nation's football and rugby union teams, with blue shirt, shorts and socks. |
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| The Ireland national rugby league team, known as the Wolfhounds, represents the whole island of Ireland in rugby league football. |
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| Outside Ireland, football is mainly played among members of the Irish diaspora. |
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| By the early 19th century, various football games, referred to collectively as caid, were popular in Kerry, especially the Dingle Peninsula. |
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| During the 1860s and 1870s, Rugby football started to become popular in Ireland. |
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| By 1958, Wembley Stadium hosted annual exhibition games of Gaelic football in England, before tens of thousands of spectators. |
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| Games are held between an Irish representative team and an Australian team, under compromise rules known as international rules football. |
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| The main competitions at all levels of Gaelic football are the League and the Championship. |
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| As with sports such as football, shinty originally did not have substitutes. |
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| The Bulldog is an official mascot of the croatian ultras group Bad Blue Boys, which support a football club GNK Dinamo Zagreb. |
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| The Kuwaiti Premier League is the top league of Kuwaiti football, featuring eighteen teams. |
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| Handball is widely considered to be the national icon of Kuwait, although football is more popular among the overall population. |
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| Important domestic competitions are the Somalia League and Somalia Cup, with the Somalia national football team playing internationally. |
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| Kenya is active in several sports, among them cricket, rallying, football, rugby union and boxing. |
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| Liechtenstein competes in the Switzerland U16 Cup Tournament, which offers young players an opportunity to play against top football clubs. |
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| It is mainly used for football matches, has a seating capacity of 21,000 spectators. |
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| Floorball, in terms of registered players, occupies third place after football and ice hockey. |
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| On the continent level, Indonesia won the bronze medal once in football in the 1958 Asian Games. |
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| The town's second football club, Clachnacuddin, plays in the Highland League. |
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| Inverness Blitz is a charity that promotes the development of American football in Inverness and the surrounding area. |
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| Palmerston Park, home to the town's senior football team Queen of the South, is on Terregles Street, also on the Maxwelltown side of the river. |
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| She thought of herself for a moment as a company president, brain surgeon, television newscastress, professional football coach. |
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| Despite being located in England, the club plays in the Scottish football league system. |
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| Cumbernauld is home to Junior football side Cumbernauld United who play at Guy's Meadow. |
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| The whole province fields a team to play the other provinces in the Railway Cup in both football and hurling. |
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| Stirling is home to professional league teams in football, rugby and cricket. |
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| The senior football team, Stirling Albion, play in the Scottish League Two at their home ground at Forthbank. |
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| Professional footballers coming from the region also form the Brittany national football team which sometimes plays with national teams. |
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| Portarlington has an Australian Rules football team competing in the Bellarine Football League. |
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| It is found in many Scottish symbols and as the name of several Scottish football clubs. |
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| These events include matches of the Scottish national football team and the Scottish rugby union team. |
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| He was a very backwards scholar, but he was a marvel on the football field. |
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| The No. 1-rated football team proceeded to blow out its undermanned opponent. |
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| The football squad was made up of cavemen who were responsible for trashing many a locker room. |
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| Down in the concourses at half-time, football and Christmas collide to make excitable children of us all. |
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| I mean, who says girls can't be involved with football? Whoever said that was cray cray! |
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| After his last year of college football, he was drafted by the Miami Dolphins. |
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| Illinois football and the entire university are in a state of mayhem.... Illinois athletics is a dumpster fire right now. |
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| The scandal involved every member of the high school's football team, resulting in a flurry of expulsions, starting with the quarterback. |
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| Roman and medieval football matches were more violent than any modern type of football. |
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| Because only nine players were present, the football team was forced to forfeit the game. |
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| If you're too gay bob and want to go play with your dolls instead, I guess you don't have to play football with us. |
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| An obvious way in which football has changed over the last decade or two has been in the use of handballing. |
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| You're wrong, kids all around the world play football, it just takes a ball and a pair of sneakers, whereas handegg requires a full body armour. |
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| The Football Association is the oldest governing body in the sport, with the rules of football first drafted in 1863 by Ebenezer Cobb Morley. |
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| A 2003 poll found that football is the most popular sport in the United Kingdom. |
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| Each of the Home Nations has its own football association, national team and league system. |
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| The English top division, the Premier League, is the most watched football league in the world. |
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| A Great Britain Olympic football team was assembled for the first time to compete in the London 2012 Olympic Games. |
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| Scotland contested the first ever international football game in 1872 against England. |
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| The Isles of Scilly feature what is reportedly the smallest football league in the world, the Isles of Scilly Football League. |
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| From 1924, the original Wembley Stadium was the home of the English national football team. |
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| Charles William Miller, who went to school in Southampton, was responsible for taking football to Brazil. |
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| Today top quality professional football remains in the northeast of England. |
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| Players from some of the region's minor league teams have gone on to influence football on the world stage. |
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| But the home side can look back with pride on a performance that boasted good football and a lot of heart. |
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| His sports were team games like football and basketball, not to mention horizontal jogging. |
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| This occurred in 2001, when a large chunk of the edge, as large as a football pitch, fell into the Channel. |
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| It is Boxing Day in a football ground, and all we can do is sprawl over the plastic, hurling instructions and vague encouragement. |
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| In 2012, a new football league was formed called the Mercian Regional Football League. |
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| Association football is the most popular sport in Norway in terms of active membership. |
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| He spoke in earnest of the importance of achieving academic excellence as well as winning football games. |
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| The NCAA currently holds its Division III championships in football, men's basketball, volleyball and softball in Salem. |
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| The city is also home to one of the oldest American football teams in the BAFA National Leagues, the Birmingham Bulls. |
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| The rain tree at sunset was exquisite, but after a few minutes Pender found himself jonesing for a football game. |
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| In the United Kingdom, more people attend live music performances than football matches. |
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| The first football league in the world was established in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. |
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| The end of the 19th century saw Britain being swept by football mania, attracting huge crowds of largely working class men. |
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| It's dusk and there are a lot of kids out playing kerby and tag and football. For a December night, the weather isn't bad. |
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| A number of sports are popular throughout the British Isles, the most prominent of which is association football. |
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| In many sports, the island of Ireland fields a single team, a notable exception being association football. |
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| The most notable exception is association football, which has separate governing bodies for each jurisdiction. |
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| Some researchers estimate that the state is losing a land mass equivalent to 30 football fields every day. |
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| The LSU Tigers football team has won 11 Southeastern Conference titles, six Sugar Bowls and three national championships. |
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| Each year New Orleans plays host to the Sugar Bowl and the New Orleans Bowl college football games, and Shreveport hosts the Independence Bowl. |
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| On 9 May 1867 Thomas Hogg and James Hogg from Skelton introduced football to South America in Argentina, founding Buenos Aires Football Club. |
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| It is named in honour of Sir John Moores, one of the founders of the Littlewoods football pools and retail group, who was a major benefactor. |
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| This tension shaped the sports of association football and cricket, and led to the schism between the two main forms of rugby. |
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| A schism was avoided in July 1885 when professionalism was formally legalised in English football. |
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| The two clubs contest the Steel City Derby, which is considered by many to be one of the most fierce football rivalries in English Football. |
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| Their two football grounds, on opposite sides of the River Trent, are noted for geographically being the closest in English league football. |
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| Notts County, formed in 1862, is the oldest professional football club in the world. |
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| Warton is home to AFC Fylde old ground who are a football club currently playing in the National League North. |
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| He is also one of the inventors of sprouts, as well as philosopher's football. |
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| This led to the codification of modern rules for many sports, including for football, lawn bowls, lawn tennis and others. |
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| Rugby is most famous for the invention of rugby football, which is played throughout the world. |
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| Tourism is also important to the town's economy, especially related to Rugby football. |
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| The national football team has won several matches over big opponents that reached the final phases in World Cups, such as Belgium and Hungary. |
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| Recently a large number of football grounds have been built throughout the island. |
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| The top football league in Malta is called the Maltese Premier League, and consists of 12 teams. |
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| Cricket is one of the most popular sports in Bangladesh, followed by football. |
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| In Asian countries, the numerous football events also increased the popularity of football. |
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| There is a Vatican football championship, with teams including the Swiss Guard's FC Guardia and police and museum guard teams. |
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| It is often claimed that King's' students played football with the embalmed head of Jeremy Bentham. |
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| There are also general interest and sporting clubs such as football, wine and cheese and the salsa club. |
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| In 1815, Eton College documented its football rules, the first football code to be written down anywhere in the world. |
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| For this description and his enthusiasm for the sport he is considered the father of modern football. |
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| TeamBath is the umbrella name for all of the University of Bath sports teams, including the aforementioned football club. |
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| Studies have found horseback riding to be more dangerous than several sports, including skiing, auto racing, and football. |
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| The tune is often used by English football supporters as the basis for chants. |
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| Gary was a hulking meathead who, when he wasn't playing football, was either hunting, fishing or getting drunk and rowdy in some topless bar. |
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| Mark Gilman, however, claims that both mods and rockers could be seen at football matches. |
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| Yates's partner is Yvonne Walcott, who is the aunt of Arsenal football player Theo Walcott. |
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| The commercial features cameo appearances from some football players with music by Eagles of Death Metal. |
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| It was remarkably similar to modern football, though similarities to rugby occurred. |
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| They all appear to have resembled rugby football, wrestling and volleyball more than what is recognizable as modern football. |
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| England is also home to the world's first football league, which was founded in Birmingham in 1888 by Aston Villa director William McGregor. |
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| According to a survey conducted by FIFA published in 2001, over 240 million people from more than 200 countries regularly play football. |
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| Kapuscinski says that Europeans who are polite, modest, or humble fall easily into rage when playing or watching football games. |
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| Association football, the modern game, also has documented early involvement of women. |
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| However the women's game was frowned upon by the British football associations, and continued without their support. |
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| Association football has been played by women since at least the time of the first recorded women's games in the late 19th century. |
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| Association football is played in accordance with a set of rules known as the Laws of the Game. |
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| In addition to the seventeen laws, numerous IFAB decisions and other directives contribute to the regulation of football. |
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| There has been a football tournament at every Summer Olympic Games since 1900, except at the 1932 games in Los Angeles. |
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| Cricket has close historical ties with Australian rules football and many players have competed at top levels in both sports. |
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| One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. |
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| Rugby football stems from the form of game played at Rugby School, which former pupils then introduced to their university. |
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| The first rugby football international was played on 27 March 1871 between Scotland and England. |
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| American football and Canadian football are derived from early forms of rugby. |
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| Australian rules football was influenced by rugby football and other games originating in English public schools. |
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| Swedish football was a code whose rules were a mix of Association and Rugby football rules. |
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| Henri Rousseau's 1908 work Joueurs de football shows two pairs of rugby players competing. |
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| Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field. |
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| Rugby league then went on to displace rugby union as the primary football code in New South Wales and Queensland. |
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| This in turn led to the codification of modern rules for many sports, including lawn tennis, most football codes, lawn bowls and others. |
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| This is turn led to the codification of modern rules for many sports, including lawn bowls, most football codes, lawn tennis and others. |
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| The Welsh football league system includes the Welsh Premier League and regional leagues. |
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| One Northern Irish club, Derry City, plays its football outside of the United Kingdom in the Republic of Ireland football league system. |
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| No United Kingdom national team is regularly formed for football events in the Olympics. |
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| It is by no means equal to football in finance, attendance or coverage, but it has a high profile nonetheless. |
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| Like association football, rugby union and rugby league both developed from traditional British football games in the 19th century. |
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| Rugby union and rugby league clubs are generally poorer than their football counterparts. |
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| The main reason for this is that it is not considered acceptable to ask football or rugby fans to sit behind an athletics track. |
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| Budding professionals in the traditionally working class team sports of football and rugby league rarely go to university. |
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| They initially used cricket grounds before later moving on to football clubs' stadiums. |
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| The stadium hosts major football matches including home matches of the England national football team, and the FA Cup Final. |
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| The stadium hosted the Gold medal matches at the 2012 Olympic Games football tournament. |
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| On some football event dates, opposing team supporters have been separated into the two different car parks. |
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| The Scotland national football team represents Scotland in international football and is controlled by the Scottish Football Association. |
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| In Australia, Scotland's national football team home games and selected away games are broadcast by Setanta Sports Australia. |
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| The Scottish Football Museum operates a hall of fame which is open to players and managers involved in Scottish football. |
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| Scotland's 1937 British Home Championship match against England set a new world record for a football attendance. |
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| Each national football association has one vote, regardless of its size or footballing strength. |
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| There is also a world ranking for women's football, updated four times a year. |
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| This emulates practices long used by some other international football events such as the UEFA Champions League. |
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| At the end of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Germany earned the highest Elo rating of any national football team in history, with a record 2200 points. |
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| However, he appeared 23 times in the Essex Second XI between 1962 and 1964, usually as a wicketkeeper, before concentrating entirely on football. |
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| In association and rugby football, the scoring of two goals or tries by one individual in a single match is referred to as a brace. |
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| The term was eventually adopted by many other sports including hockey, association football, water polo and team handball. |
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| Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. |
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| They play in the Northern Premier League Division One South, at level 8 of the English football league system. |
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| Founded in 1857, the club is the oldest club now playing association football. |
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| They were referred to as the Sheffield Rules, and were the first official set of rules and laws for the game of football. |
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| For example, each of the various public schools played football according to their own individual rules, and these varied widely. |
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| There was much reluctance from the owners of Bramall Lane to see the pitch used for football. |
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| It is also responsible for appointing the management of the men's, women's, and youth national football teams. |
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| All of England's professional football teams are members of the Football Association. |
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| Eleven London football clubs and schools representatives met on 26 October 1863 to agree on common rules. |
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| Central to the creation of the Football Association and modern football was Ebenezer Cobb Morley. |
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| The Premier League reduced to 20 clubs in 1995 and is one of the richest football leagues in the world. |
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| For several decades this decision meant that women's football virtually ceased to exist. |
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| The FA's income does not include the turnover of English football clubs, which are independent businesses. |
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| The Laws of the Game are the codified rules that help define association football. |
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| The competition is open to any club down to Level 10 of the English football league system which meets the eligibility criteria. |
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| Founded in 1888 as the Football League, the league is the oldest such competition in world football. |
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| The Football League consists of 70 professional association football clubs in England and 2 in Wales. |
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| The end of the ban on English clubs in Europe also helped boost interest in English football. |
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| This meant that there would once again be 92 clubs in the highest four divisions of English football. |
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| The Premier League is an English professional league for men's association football clubs. |
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| At the top of the English football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. |
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