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Medieval football is a modern term used for a wide variety of the localised informal football games which were invented and played in England during the Middle Ages. Alternative names include folk football, mob football and Shrovetide football. These games may be regarded as the ancestors of modern codes of football, and by comparison with ...
The early history of games like football in Scotland is uncertain, but it is possible that variations reached Scotland from France or England. [1]Games of "football" were played in Scotland in the Middle Ages, but medieval football bears little resemblance to association football (soccer).
The Ba' Game is a version of medieval football played in Scotland, primarily in Orkney and the Scottish Borders, around Christmas and New Year. Ba' is essentially mob football, or village football, where two parts of a town have to get a ball to goals on their respective sides. The two sides are called the Uppies or the Downies, depending on ...
1314 — Nicholas de Farndone, Lord Mayor of the City of London issued a decree banning football. [18] 1349 — King Edward III of England issued a proclamation banning "...handball, football, or hockey; coursing and cock-fighting, or other such idle games". [19] 1424 — the Scottish Parliament of James I banned 'fute-ball' in the Football Act ...
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