Soccer rules – Despite being a sport with roots reaching out to medieval and even ancient times, soccer was never truly played within a set of strict rules until 1863.
On 26 October, 1863 several amateur and semi-professional clubs from England gathered up in London and established up the Football Association and devised a “constitution” for the game, including a set of standardized soccer.Obviously the “Laws of football” as they were called back then were just a set of basic soccer rules and they did not cover all aspects of… Continue reading
So the World Cup fever is starting to subside and the inevitable fallout is in full swing. England’s swift exit was a huge let down for fans but that disapointment could have given way to seething anger had the game have swung on England’s second goal which was disallowed by the referee.
After the game, fans meekly tried to insist that the result would have been different had the second goal been called in, the truth is that the three lions were outclassed by a much more cohesive, effective German… Continue reading
