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[alexISS]

Your a twat mate....

No offence!

Never got the chance to learn the difference between "you're" and "your" did you? Do they only teach you how to get drunk, stab each other and bow at the presence of an American at school?

[kafenes]

Documented evidence of what is possibly the oldest activity resembling football can be found in a Chinese military manual written during the Warring States Period in about the 476 BC-221 BC. It describes a practice known as cuju (蹴鞠, literally "kick ball"), which originally involved kicking a leather ball through a hole in a piece of silk cloth strung between two 30-foot poles. During the Han Dynasty (206 BC–220 AD), cuju games were standardized and rules were established. Variations of this game later spread to Japan and Korea, known as kemari and chuk-guk respectively. By the Chinese Tang Dynasty (618-907), the feather-stuffed ball was replaced by an air-filled ball and cuju games had become professionalized, with many players making a living playing cuju. Also, two different types of goal posts emerged: One was made by setting up posts with a net between them and the other consisted of just one goal post in the middle of the field. FIFA, the governing body of association football (soccer), has acknowledged that China was the birthplace of its game.[2]
The Japanese version of cuju is kemari (蹴鞠), and was adopted during the Asuka period from the Chinese. This is known to have been played within the Japanese imperial court in Kyoto from about 600 AD. In kemari several people stand in a circle and kick a ball to each other, trying not to let the ball drop to the ground (much like keepie uppie). The game appears to have died out sometime before the mid-19th century. It was revived in 1903 and is now played at a number of festivals.
The Ancient Greeks and Romans are known to have played many ball games some of which involved the use of the feet. The Roman writer Cicero describes the case of a man who was killed whilst having a shave when a ball was kicked into a barber's shop. The Roman game harpastum is believed to have been adapted from a team game known as "επισκυρος" (episkyros) or pheninda that is mentioned by Greek playwright, Antiphanes (388-311BC) and later referred to by Clement of Alexandria. These games appears to have resembled rugby
An illustration from the 1850s of Australian Aboriginal hunter gatherers. Children in the background are playing a football game, possibly Marn Grook.[3]
There are a number of references to traditional, ancient, and/or prehistoric ball games, played by indigenous peoples in many different parts of the world. For example, in 1586, men from a ship commanded by an English explorer named John Davis, went ashore to play a form of football with Inuit (Eskimo) people in Greenland.[4] There are later accounts of an Inuit game played on ice, called Aqsaqtuk. Each match began with two teams facing each other in parallel lines, before attempting to kick the ball through each other team's line and then at a goal. In 1610, William Strachey of the Jamestown settlement, Virginia recorded a game played by Native Americans, called Pahsaheman. In Victoria, Australia, indigenous people played a game called Marn Grook ("ball game"). An 1878 book by Robert Brough-Smyth, The Aborigines of Victoria, quotes a man called Richard Thomas as saying, in about 1841, that he had witnessed Aboriginal people playing the game: "Mr Thomas describes how the foremost player will drop kick a ball made from the skin of a possum and how other players leap into the air in order to catch it." It is widely believed that Marn Grook had an influence on the development of Australian rules football (see below).
Games played in Central America with rubber balls by indigenous peoples are also well-documented as existing since before this time, but these had more similarities to basketball or volleyball, and since their influence on modern football games is minimal, most do not class them as football.
These games and others may well go far back into antiquity and may have influenced later football games. However, the main sources of modern football codes appear to lie in western Europe, especially England.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football#Ancient_games

[skycop]

Alexiss,

Grow up!

Brain dead ape... please!

I will not apologize to anyone just as, I would not expect anyone to apologize to me. What I will do is drop it as should you....

Mate, if you dont like what i have to say then ignor me but please... no more insults cause its not your thread or mine and together we are ruining an interesting topic.

And ummm..... Really im not drunk at the moment but later when im watching the Arsenal I might be...

[DINOS SKALIOTIS]

Stuart pearce? do me a favour a man that got payed for an ad campeign on the subject of missing an important penalty for his country! i will tell you something give him the job and we can laugh at england for evermore! same goes for anal sheera or satan as we call him in the north-east, it`s this kind of old fashioned thinking that holds england back

[DINOS SKALIOTIS]

Greece won in 2004, but they played boring football and fluked it

that is a rediculous comment! and sounds like sour grapes! england or anyone else would have loved to have played the greek way in 2004 if it meant winning the championship! in years to come the records will state that greece won in 2004 without losing a game and thats what people will remember, we beat portugal twice not once and they were the home nation and many peoples favourites, and who knocked out england? erm,,,,portugal, we also beat france, czech republic, and this was all luck wasnt it? none of them teams wanted to win they just all gave it to greece

[DINOS SKALIOTIS]

Your a twat mate....

No offence!

Never got the chance to learn the difference between "you're" and "your" did you? Do they only teach you how to get drunk, stab each other and bow at the presence of an American at school?

and to kiss muslim arse! dont forget the english are masters at kissing muslim arse!

[DINOS SKALIOTIS]

I agree with that Easy.... I dont think these people understand what makes for good football .... We have alot of quality on the england side but unfortunatly we cant get it together as a team....COS YOU ARE SHIT!

Yes the greeks did introduce the Alphabet, they also introduced homosexuallity... want three cheers for that too..WE GAVE IT AS A GIFT FOR THE ENGLISH TO PRACTISE UNTIL THIS DAY! AND BOY DO THEY PRACTISE

For your information the Brits did not start the trouble with the turks..... The Cypriots and Greeks did that all by them self.. First killing British then, Turks... Learn your history

Dont get personal with me Its not clever... If I am loyal to the team that reprsents my country them thats a matter for me...

You are an illiterate drunk. Greeks introduced homosexuality?!? No race, especially yours, ever needed lessons on homosexuality. As phoenix said, the Greeks were the first to document it, as was the case with astronomy, mathematics, philosophy and literature. Of all these it's the bit about homosexuality that you know about, I wonder why... Now shut up because nobody had insulted your nation before you started insulting mine. People were criticizing the English football team because that was the subject of the thread. If you can't take it just move along. Idiot

[EasyE]

Greece won in 2004, but they played boring football and fluked it

that is a rediculous comment! and sounds like sour grapes! england or anyone else would have loved to have played the greek way in 2004 if it meant winning the championship! in years to come the records will state that greece won in 2004 without losing a game and thats what people will remember, we beat portugal twice not once and they were the home nation and many peoples favourites, and who knocked out england? erm,,,,portugal, we also beat france, czech republic, and this was all luck wasnt it? none of them teams wanted to win they just all gave it to greece

It was good to see Greece win don;t get me wrong but come on it was BORING! Score one goal then get 11 men behind the ball. It wasnt the most attractive football was it.

Perhaps fluked it wasn't the correct word i suppose and perhaps i should of used a one-off

[DINOS SKALIOTIS]

Greece won in 2004, but they played boring football and fluked it

that is a rediculous comment! and sounds like sour grapes! england or anyone else would have loved to have played the greek way in 2004 if it meant winning the championship! in years to come the records will state that greece won in 2004 without losing a game and thats what people will remember, we beat portugal twice not once and they were the home nation and many peoples favourites, and who knocked out england? erm,,,,portugal, we also beat france, czech republic, and this was all luck wasnt it? none of them teams wanted to win they just all gave it to greece

It was good to see Greece win don;t get me wrong but come on it was BORING! Score one goal then get 11 men behind the ball. It wasnt the most attractive football was it.

Perhaps fluked it wasn't the correct word i suppose and perhaps i should of used a one-off

I WASNT BORED, BUT THEN I AM A FAN I GUESS, SO WHAT ABOUT THE GAME WHEN THEY SCORED FROM A CORNER RIGHT AT THE END? WAS THAT ALSO SCORING A GOAL AND THEN 11 MEN BEHIND THE BALL? MAYBE YOU WERE WATCHING A DIFFERENT GAME FROM ME? PEOPLE ALWAYS WANT TO DETRACT FROM ANY GREAT GREEK ACHIEVEMENTS ITS ALWAYS THE SAME, THEY HAVE JUST QUALIFIED SCORING THE HIGHEST POINTS TALLY OF ANY TEAM IN EUROPE! I SUPPOSE THIS IS ALSO BORING AND A ONE OFF?

[EasyE]

Greece won in 2004, but they played boring football and fluked it

that is a rediculous comment! and sounds like sour grapes! england or anyone else would have loved to have played the greek way in 2004 if it meant winning the championship! in years to come the records will state that greece won in 2004 without losing a game and thats what people will remember, we beat portugal twice not once and they were the home nation and many peoples favourites, and who knocked out england? erm,,,,portugal, we also beat france, czech republic, and this was all luck wasnt it? none of them teams wanted to win they just all gave it to greece

It was good to see Greece win don;t get me wrong but come on it was BORING! Score one goal then get 11 men behind the ball. It wasnt the most attractive football was it.

Perhaps fluked it wasn't the correct word i suppose and perhaps i should of used a one-off

I WASNT BORED, BUT THEN I AM A FAN I GUESS, SO WHAT ABOUT THE GAME WHEN THEY SCORED FROM A CORNER RIGHT AT THE END? WAS THAT ALSO SCORING A GOAL AND THEN 11 MEN BEHIND THE BALL? MAYBE YOU WERE WATCHING A DIFFERENT GAME FROM ME? PEOPLE ALWAYS WANT TO DETRACT FROM ANY GREAT GREEK ACHIEVEMENTS ITS ALWAYS THE SAME, THEY HAVE JUST QUALIFIED SCORING THE HIGHEST POINTS TALLY OF ANY TEAM IN EUROPE! I SUPPOSE THIS IS ALSO BORING AND A ONE OFF?

Anyone (apart from our shower of shit) can qualify. Who was in your group?