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Steve Nicol believes Manchester City are at the moment the team to beat in the UEFA Champions League and are his favourite to win all of it. In the 16th century, the city of Florence celebrated the interval between Epiphany and Lent by taking part in a sport which at the moment is known as “calcio storico” (“historic kickball”) in the Piazza Santa Croce The young aristocrats of town would costume up in high quality silk costumes and embroil themselves in a violent form of football.

41 :6 Football confronted armed opposition within the 18th Century when used as a cover for violent protest in opposition to the enclosure act Women have been banned from enjoying at English and Scottish Football League grounds in 1921, a ban that was solely lifted in the Nineteen Seventies. By the late 1850s, many football clubs had been formed throughout the English-talking world, to … Read the rest