Yorkshire Football Clubs
Football in Yorkshire refers to the sport of association football in relation to its participation and history within Yorkshire, England. The county was the largest in the United Kingdom and as thus has many football clubs professional and amateur.
Sheffield in South Yorkshire is recognised by FIFA and UEFA as the birthplace of club football, because Sheffield FC are the oldest association football club in the world. With its origins in the Sheffield Rules code, the game eventually spread to other parts of the county after Hull local Ebenezer Cobb Morley wrote The Football Association's Laws of the Game, which are still used worldwide today.
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Famous quotes containing the words football and/or clubs:
“People stress the violence. That’s the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there’s a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There’s a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies stewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there’s a satisfaction to the game that can’t be duplicated. There’s a harmony.”
—Don Delillo (b. 1926)
“Women realize that we are living in an ungoverned world. At heart we are all pacifists. We should love to talk it over with the war-makers, but they would not understand. Words are so inadequate, and we realize that the hatred must kill itself; so we give our men gladly, unselfishly, proudly, patriotically, since the world chooses to settle its disputes in the old barbarous way.”
—General Federation Of Women’s Clubs (GFWC)