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Show Football. . The giimo of footliiill Is siild lo hnvo originated with (lie early Celtic Inhabitants Inhab-itants of F.iml.ilul. It Is certainly ns old as the Christian epi. Tho. giunn was Immensely (xipulur all Uirough tho middle njjes ami apppars lo have' been from the start the name dangerous danger-ous thing that It Is today. It was ro-peatcdly ro-peatcdly censured and opposed by 'tho nutlioiltles. ami an attmept at lis suppression sup-pression wu.s iiiuiIh under Henry IV., Henry VIII. uml F.llxulieth. but the game' i-olitlnue.l h be plajed until about llTi.i Revived about the begin-tiln-i of tin' eighteenth cenlury. It has since then stemllly grown In opularl-ty opularl-ty and Is today one of tho nlost popular pop-ular of Kuiil'sh aiia'Anieiieiiii'sports. X-w V-. -.--.- |