Quote Originally Posted by xsnaggle View Post
Now which war exactly would that have been? The one just before the industrial revolution you mentioned I mean??
Yes, after which war did football kick of as a spectator sport? Stadiums getting built and so on? And after which war (yes another one)did football change and move on to what we have today? Meaning football clubs as enterprise and players moving clubs for money. It was suddenly all over the world. Rival factories and cities fighting over contracts, rival cities from old grew into something else. And football was the common ground. In England, south America, in Europe and so on.
It laid the very basis for what most of you grew up with in the 80s and 90s. So you have city rivalry going back over 100 years. But it is when they actually compete at the same level and at the top it grows into something like this, isn't it?

https://www.google.no/amp/s/www.manc...n-12381447.amp

Bristol against Cardiff just dosen't have the same apeal.. Does it?

And which King did have his first football shoes made for him, and did they steal the design from ladies shoes? I mean, a king in working shoes with high heals? 🤔