nordyandsharpey

Hi Pompeyboy,

Yep would definitely be interested in meeting up. How about I email you again nearer to the start of the season. In the meantime, I'm off to study the rules of the game just in case the ostentatious Mr Cassidy tries to test me on them in his next post. Have a good one.

Pompeyboy

Is ostentatious another word for knob??
And just in case he reads your last post its "The laws of the game".
Look forward to hearing from you male or female!
Cheers Pompeyboy

PS Get on The Locker Room...Fraser is a bitter West Ham fan and he hates Redknapp...

Butch Cassidy

Nah, but pretentious is.

Mikey B

I think so yeah, also as far as Im aware also means nothing worthwhile or useful to contribute to an OP's and thread/question but complete drivel and sh*te away from origional topic!

Butch Cassidy

Mikey,
hasn't your lease run out on that brain cell?

Mikey B

Why do you need it back? Having trouble breathing not having a single one? Knuckles dragging too?

Butch Cassidy

Didn't your mummy ever tell you not to talk to yourself?

Mikey B

Ohh thats a good one, Im laughing my ass off now!

Mate are you in Canada yet? If so they seriously have lowered the standard of entry since I applied and moved here. Am I talking to myself again or you gonna reply like last time eh?

Butch Cassidy

Kind of get the feeling one of us slipped through the net, and I'm damn sure he doesn't live in Alberta.

Now why not go back to shaving your palms and beating your big manly chest? Oh I'm sorry you probably can't get to it through your oh so hot and sexy lycra muscle shirt.

Think I'll go play with the big people now.

Mikey B

Goodnight muppet, you go play with the big boys like you say, mommy always said you were special and a big boy.

iaink

"Football" clearly predated the invention of Rugby....

Vikty

Me and my OH are looking into moving to Edmoton hopefully this year on a TWP. We are a youngish English couple with a 16 month old daughter. We should keep in touch, you can show us round when we get there

How you liking Edmonton, is it nice, we are in sunny Manchester at the moment, can't wait to leave.

Butch Cassidy

Thank you Iain,

"the rule for which Webb Ellis showed disregard was running forward with it as the rules of his time only allowed a player to retreat backwards or kick forwards."

Also taken from wiki .

If you'd care to read the article you'll find this event is purported to have occured in 1823, whilst it wasn't until the 1860s that efforts were made to unify the VARIOUS styles of public school games:

"At the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen Street, London on the evening of October 26, 1863, representatives of several football clubs in the London Metropolitan area met for the inaugural meeting of The Football Association (FA). The aim of the Association was to establish a single unifying code and regulate the playing of the game among its members. Following the first meeting, the public schools were invited to join the association. All of them declined, except Charterhouse and Uppingham. In total, six meetings of the FA were held between October and December 1863. After the third meeting, a draft set of rules were published. However, at the beginning of the fourth meeting, attention was drawn to the recently-published Cambridge Rules of 1863. The Cambridge rules differed from the draft FA rules in two significant areas; namely running with (carrying) the ball and hacking (kicking opposing players in the shins). The two contentious FA rules were as follows:

IX. A player shall be entitled to run with the ball towards his adversaries' goal if he makes a fair catch, or catches the ball on the first bound; but in case of a fair catch, if he makes his mark he shall not run.

X. If any player shall run with the ball towards his adversaries' goal, any player on the opposite side shall be at liberty to charge, hold, trip or hack him, or to wrest the ball from him, but no player shall be held and hacked at the same time."

iaink

If you care to go back to Han Dynasty China (around 200BC) there was a variant of a game called Tsu' Chu, mentioned in miliray manuals, which consisted of kicking a leather ball filled with feathers and hair through an opening into a small net fixed onto long bamboo canes. The player was not permitted to use their hands.

Its all a pointless argument anyway, does it really matter?

http://www.footballnetwork.org/dev/h...l/history1.asp

Butch Cassidy

Exactly, so why join in?