Carry on up the Corner Flag
R.W. Johnson: The sociology of football, 24 July 2003
Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War
by Simon Kuper.
Orion, 244 pp., £14.99, January 2003,0 7528 5149 7 Show More
by Simon Kuper.
Orion, 244 pp., £14.99, January 2003,
“... Charles II to patronise the game; in 1681 he attended a game between his servants and those of the Duke of Albemarle. It was, before all others, the great game of the common people, for many centuries surviving every attempt at its repression. It was also played in many forms with many local variants. In the Derby Shrove Tuesday version the mob would follow ... ”