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Brondesbury F.C.
Brondesbury F.C. was an English association football club based in Brondesbury, London. History The club was founded as a revival of the N.N. Club, No Names club in 1871 and had its first match - a 1–0 win over a Barnes F.C., Barnes second eleven - on 25 November 1871. The club competed in the FA Cup on two occasions during the 1870s. The club's first Cup tie was against the Royal Engineers A.F.C. in 1873-74_FA_Cup, 1873, at the latter's Chatham Lines ground; given the Sappers were considered the strongest side in the country, Brondesbury originally tried to withdraw, but, finding that the attempt to do so was not in accordance with regulations, turned up to the match, albeit with only nine players. In the circumstances a 5–0 defeat was no disgrace. Brondesbury had similar bad luck with the draw 1874-75_FA_Cup, the following year, being drawn at Cup holders Oxford University A.F.C. and losing 6–0. The club's captain at the time, Edgar Field, later became an England i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
