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Dykebar F.C.
Dykebar Football Club was a Scottish association football, football team located in the town of Paisley, Renfrewshire. History The club was founded in 1879, albeit in its early years it did not play competitive football, and did not even host a "conversazione" - the usual annual celebration of a club - until January 1886. Its first competitive football came in the Renfrewshire Cup in 1885–86, and its first match something of a false start; the club lost to Paisley Hibernian F.C., Paisley Hibernians but the Hibernians had not registered a single one of the starting XI with the Renfrewshire FA, so Dykebar was put through to the second round; Hibernian secretary James Gildea accepted the blame, on the basis that, having registered the players with the Scottish Football Association, he had not thought it necessary to do so again with the county association. In the second round the club beat Greenock Northern F.C., Northern (Greenock) 4–1, coming from behind, and lost 7–0 to Ab ... [...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] |
