The Emergence of Football by Peter Swain

Author:Peter Swain [Swain, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Europe, Great Britain, General, Sports & Recreation, Soccer, Cultural & Social Aspects
ISBN: 9781351334037
Google: eHnpDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-21T16:15:50+00:00

7 The missing years, 1831–1840

This chapter explores part of the ongoing problem, identified by a small number of historians in the historiography of football, concerning the alleged ‘disappearance of football in the wider community between 1830 and 1860, not least because of the rapid expansion in the game amongst the working and middle classes in the 1870s’.1 Indeed, Gavin Kitching has noted that

Adrian Harvey’s own account moves abruptly from discussion of the popular, pub-based football teams of the 1830s to a chapter on the distinctly upper-middle class Sheffield Association football clubs of the 1850s and 1860s. Moreover, from the late 1850s on, all forms of plebeian team football disappear from his account entirely, until the rise of semi-professional and professional football (both soccer and Rugby) in the 1880s and 1890s. They disappear from his account, but did they disappear in reality?2

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