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Football’s Past Revisited: Further Investigations into the Early Development of the Game book cover

1st Edition

Football’s Past Revisited Further Investigations into the Early Development of the Game

Edited By Graham Curry Copyright 2025
150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge

150 Pages
by Routledge
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This book delves into the complex, yet fascinating evolution of football. From a relatively unruly mob game played on festival days, the game was adopted, codified and 'civilised' by the major English Public Schools and then diffused into the wider society to become a codified, modern sports-form. The birth of the Football Association in 1863 in London provided compromise rules, enabling teams... Read more

Foreword – Speaking of football: some thoughts on the early development of the game

Timothy J. L. Chandler

 

1. Early football, governance and cup competitions: the formative years of the Staffordshire Football Association, c. 1877–1887

Martyn Dean Cooke

 

2. Footballing backwater? A study of early Norfolk football

Graham Curry

 

3. A brief study of football in London from 1800 to the founding of the Football Association in 1863

Michael Freeman

 

4. The Youdan and Cromwell Cups: Sheffield football’s knockout trophies

Kevin Neill

 

5. Velvet caps and tassles: East Lancashire, class and the FA cup

Peter Swain

 

6. Beyond The Close: Rugby School’s football network, 1840–1880

Malcolm Tozer

 

7. John Charles Thring: footballer, codifier, advocate, schoolmaster and priest

Malcolm Tozer

 

8. Historical firsts and superlatives: public engagement versus historical accuracy in association football

Martin Westby and John P. Wilson

 

Biography

Graham Curry trained at the University of Leicester, UK, gaining his MA and PhD there. He has written extensively on the historical sociology of Association Football, publishing, in 2016 with Eric Dunning, the thought-provoking Association Football: A Study in Figurational Sociology (Routledge). Still playing, he represents England in the over-60s age group.

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