Rome Wasn't Built in a Day, Chapter Two; A meeting of the captains and secretaries
The first codification of the laes of the game doesn't mean that it bore much resemblance to the game we play today, but it didn't take long before that started to change.
The second chapter of Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day takes us from the arrival of a Hull-born solicitor in London in the 1850s to the end of the 1870s, by which point the game was already starting to change into something that hadn’t really been anticipated when the FA was formed in 1863.
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