British and proud of it

[gmc]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

There Hasn't Been Anyone Able To Prove Jesus Ever To Have Existed . So That Has Nothing To Do With The Question / Anti -Christ .

If he never existed then there is no such thing as an anti-christ so your question is even more nonsensical. In any case how did this get in to a thread about british and proud of it-unless of course you fall for the hoary old chestnut that god is an englishman.

[K.Snyder]

Although it's been said that many games resembling soccer/football have taken place in other countries(China, and Japan I believe) I don't think the game itself as played the way it is today could be given credibility as to it's origination to any other culture than that of the British...

I've read the first ever soccer/football game as it is played today was played between England and Scotland...Is this true?...

I have an article written from America from which the game of soccer/football is referred to as soccer so I'll have it be known that I've edited every illustration of the article referring the game of soccer/football to soccer, to soccer/football...

WAS THIS HOW SOCCER/FOOTBALL WAS INTRODUCED - THE ORIGINS & HISTORY OF THE GREAT GAME

Many different cultures have played a sport similar to the modern game of soccer/football but no one can really say with any certainty when or where soccer/football began but it is known that the earlier variations of what later became soccer/football were played almost 3000 years ago.

One of the earliest forms of soccer/football in which players kicked a ball around on a small field has been traced as far back to 1004 B.C. in Japan. The Munich Ethnological Museum in Germany has a Chinese text from approximately 50 B.C. that mentions games very similar to soccer/football that were played between teams from Japan and China. The Chinese kicked a leather ball ( hair-filled ) and it is known with certainty that a soccer/football game was played in 611 A.D. in the then Japanese capital, Kyoto.

The Romans played a game that somewhat resembled modern soccer/football. The early Olympic games in Rome featured twenty-seven men on a side who completed so vigorously that two-thirds of them had to be hospitalized after a fifty-minute game.

While historians kept records of events such as wars and religious movements they had very little interest in preserving the various origins of soccer/football or many other sports, so no one can say how soccer/football seems to have spread from Asia to Europe.

The most popular game on earth.

The King of Sports? Not according to King Edward.

In King Edward's reign of England (1307-1327), laws were passed that threatened imprisonment to anyone caught playing soccer/football. King Edward's proclamation said:" For as much as there is a great noise in the city caused by hustling over large balls, from which many evils may arise, which God forbid, we command and forbid on behalf of the King, on pain of imprisonment, such game to be used in the city future."

Evidently judged to be vulgar and indecent, soccer/football was at times suppressed by the English sheriffs who followed royal orders describing the game as a useless practice. King Henry IV and Henry VIII passed laws against the sport, and Queen Elizabeth I "had soccer/football players jailed for a week, with follow-up church penance"

Laws, however, failed to stop the sport, which had earned official sanction in England by 1681. The game became so popular by 1800s that, in certain annual contests in northern and middle England, large groups roamed and raged through towns and villages. In 1829, an account of such match in Derbyshire spoke of "broken skins, broken heads, torn coats and lost hats."

A record of the development of soccer/football in England shows that Eton college had the earliest known rules of the game in 1815, perhaps implying that until then, chaos was preferred over order. But order gradually came to the game, and standardized rules known as the Cambridge rules were adopted by England's major colleges.

At 1st, it was England where soccer/football was originally banned, that eventually exported modern soccer/football to every continent in the world. today, undisputedly soccer/football is the most watched and played sport in the world enjoyed by 8 million people. This past World cup, that took place in the united States was watched by an estimated 33 million people around the world for almost 27 days. This makes soccer, the most watched single sports event in the world not surpassed even by the Olympics. This sport is bigger than baseball, football and basketball combined.

http://www.athleticscholarships.net/...-of-soccer.htm

History and development - click here

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by spot

How would you demonstrate that Pocahontas ever existed?

What does Pocahontas Have To Do With Ja - Zeus Nothing ..As for Captain John Smith , Who care's

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by gmc

If he never existed then there is no such thing as an anti-christ so your question is even more nonsensical. In any case how did this get in to a thread about british and proud of it-unless of course you fall for the hoary old chestnut that god is an englishman.

Fliping The Question Doesn't Change It .

[spot]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

What does Pocahontas Have To Do With Ja - Zeus Nothing ..As for Captain John Smith , Who care's

It's all a matter of the degree of proof you demand really, isn't it. We all of us qualify as "possibly" except you and me, and even you I'm none to sure about.

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by spot

It's all a matter of the degree of proof you demand really, isn't it. We all of us qualify as "possibly" except you and me, and even you I'm none to sure about.

The Diffrent Between You And I , Is You Rather Live A Lie And Make Up Things As You Go , Like I Have Said You Can't Prove Something That Never Exist .. As Far As
John Smith He Was Just Another Criminal In Your History .

[spot]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

The Diffrent Between You And I , Is You Rather Live A Lie And Make Up Things As You Go , Like I Have Said You Can't Prove Something That Never Exist .. As Far As
John Smith He Was Just Another Criminal In Your History .

But you can't prove Pocahontas either, and she *did* exist. Maybe.

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by spot

But you can't prove Pocahontas either, and she *did* exist. Maybe.

That Doesn't Change That John Smith Was Just Another Criminal In Your History . Personaly I Careless If Ether One Of Them Existed So What Your Point .

[spot]

Originally Posted by Daniyal

That Doesn't Change That John Smith Was Just Another Criminal In Your History . Personaly I Careless If Ether One Of Them Existed So What Your Point .

That your "Anyone Able To Prove Jesus Ever Existed" has nothing to do with whether he existed or not. Once you get to a given distance the proofs all vanish. What's really insane is your "oh the Egyptians recorded everything so show us their record of Jesus/Moses" error. You can't be saying it thinking it's true, so why bother saying it?

[Daniyal]

Originally Posted by spot

That your "Anyone Able To Prove Jesus Ever Existed" has nothing to do with whether he existed or not. Once you get to a given distance the proofs all vanish. What's really insane is your "oh the Egyptians recorded everything so show us their record of Jesus/Moses" error. You can't be saying it thinking it's true, so why bother saying it?