WHAT DOES FOOTBALL MEAN?

The first references to goals are in the late sixteenth and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "targets" in Cornish hurling. Carew explained how ambitions had been designed: "they pitch two bushes in the bottom, some eight or ten foote asunder; and specifically in opposition to them, ten o