1. Midfield war
Revolvers and knives, sticks and stones, fists and feet – all of these came in handy in that game at Celtic Park. In midfield, the Belfast Celtics' home court was chaotic, people were fighting with each other, and the police on the scene were helpless. Although the commotion broke out in an instant, many people suspected that it was actually premeditated. Celtic Park is a Catholic site, and the Celtics' opponent that day, Linfield, is another club in Belfast, but its supporters are mostly Protestants.
On that day, the crowd in the stands was divided into two parts, one carrying the flag of the United Kingdom and the other waving the green and white flag of the Belfast Celtics. Thousands of people were swept up in the commotion, the police were drowned out by the surging crowds during the "battle", and the noise was even more deafening. Scenes of unrest once led to the belief that there would be heavy casualties. But fortunately, everyone survived that day. But nearby hospitals were already overcrowded, and doctors worked overtime to treat more than 100 injured patients, some of whom suffered gunshot wounds, some with fractured heads and some with facial injuries.
The Celtics' match against Linfield will now also spark unrest
Almost no one has been able to get away with the riots. There are various accounts about the scene at that time, but we should believe the claims of the referee on duty in that game. T-Holmes told the newspaper about his personal experience: "Everything was normal at halftime, but before everyone could react, riots suddenly broke out. We were in the locker room and club officials and players were suddenly prisoners. Although the officials and I myself were not harmed in any way, we could not leave the locker room even after the arrival of police reinforcements. We used to feel very frightened for a while, but fortunately there was no danger. At that time, some troublesome thugs violently attacked the door of the dressing room and almost smashed it. Tickets for the day's game were kept in a room furthest from the door, but even then it was in danger, with club officials using drawers containing money as latches, but fortunately it persisted until the troublemakers left. At the worst of the attacks, officials crouched behind doors, ready to be rocked or trampled by crowds, because before that we had seen four policemen in a room knocked down in an instant. "
The commotion lasted more than half an hour and it was impossible to restart the game. The match was suspended at halftime, when Linfield led 1-0, a goal scored by Smith McEwan about half an hour into the game, a clean and uncontroversial goal. It was probably the only clean thing that happened that afternoon at Celtic Park in Belfast.
Gascoin, who plays the flute, has also caused controversy at the Celtic home
2. Four consecutive penalties
It is hard to imagine that the FA Cup, in the first 20 years of its birth, had no concept of penalties at all. In the quarter-finals at Trent Bridge in 1891, Hendry of Notts County punched the ball into the net, but their opponent Stoke still lost 0-1 because the rules of football at the time did not have a corresponding penalty for this foul. The rules of penalties were later implemented on the basis of irish football rules.
Amateur players opposed the implementation of this rule, arguing that the existence of the penalty rule was an insult and distrust of the moral character of players, and may instead stimulate the emergence of violations of sportsmanship. In the years that followed, amateur players refused to accept penalty rules. If a Collins player is awarded a penalty, the goalkeeper will lean against the goalpost and wait for the penalty to be fired.
Penalty rules were first introduced to allow the goalkeeper to move in the area 6 yards in front of the goal line. Some goalkeepers are very agile and they almost always get the ball ahead of the person who takes the penalty. In the early 20th century, penalty players began to try to pick the ball off the head of the goalkeeper who was attacking forward and into the goal. After 1905, a new rule was passed that prohibited goalkeepers from moving outward away from the goal line. (Two supplementary rules were introduced in the 1920s, one prohibiting goalkeepers from moving after making a false move to confuse their opponents, the other proposing to add a 10-yard arc to prevent more than 10 other players on the penalty side from lining up in formation in the penalty area for an opportunity to make up for it, and prohibiting players from running more than 6 yards on penalties.) ）
Penalties are an important scoring tool in today's soccer game
The situation was such on 13 February 1909, when Greensby's goalkeeper Scott faced Four penalties from Burnley. The race takes place on muddy grounds. Greensby suffered two consecutive blows shortly after the start of the game. The first was Abbott's goal that gave Burnley a 1-0 lead, and the second was that one of their players was injured so much that Greensby had to play with 10 men for the remaining 10 minutes of the game. Greensby started with a single-back (equivalent to today's free centre-back), a formation that was very conducive to offside tactics – at the time, there had to be more than three defenders between the attacking players and the goal line instead of the two now mandated, otherwise the offside was awarded – which caused a lot of trouble for burnley. Even so, Scott managed to break into the penalty area and get tripped by Henderson – the first penalty was born. Scott saved the penalty beautifully.
Next, Wheelhouse made a second penalty for Burnley. Smith took the penalty and Scott moved quickly and made a fantastic save. Greensby's goalkeeper then saved two more shots in the following game. But in the scramble between the two sides, a third penalty was born. The extremely fast Abbott scored the penalty to give Burnley a 2-0 lead in the first half. Of the three penalties Burnley won, two were saved and one was hit.
Greensby had a glorious period in the 1970s
In the second half, Greensby abandoned the use of single-back play, and they began to adopt a more traditional defensive position, using four forwards. When Whitehouse went off to "patch up his bloomers," Greensby had just nine men left on the pitch. At this time, Davis insulted the referee and caused The Greensby to eat a fourth penalty. Abbott's shot did not pose a threat to Scott, and he shot the ball straight into the goalkeeper's arms, thus completing Scott's hat-trick to save the penalty. Scott's performance of saving three penalties was extraordinary. Over the next two months, the goalkeeper saved seven of his eight penalties. However, Greensby fans began to worry about the team's defense, fearing that players might foul recklessly because of Scott's ability to save penalties. But this fear proved to be completely superfluous.
3. World wars can't stop football either
During World War I, the trenches were filled with the smell of blood and killing. British and German soldiers climbed out of their respective trenches for a series of fights. The British soldiers were entertained as they patrolled their positions, often shouting slogans, singing military songs, and even playing football at least once in East Surrey.
Although the war was fierce, deep down, many soldiers understood that they actually had to fight because politicians were competing for interests. Soldiers on the front lines often developed sympathy for the opposing soldiers. When the battle stopped, the soldiers hiding in the safe trenches would sometimes talk loudly to the enemy soldiers, and the sound would pass through the empty battlefield and reach the ears of the other side. Some of the German soldiers knew English. The conversation between the two sides naturally referred to football – some German soldiers had been to England before the war and experienced the strong football atmosphere there – and then, more naturally, they decided that the two sides should team up to compete.
A soccer match during World War I
There are probably many games in the history of football that people will never miss, the most commonly mentioned is the one played on Christmas Day 1914. On the same day, British and German soldiers met on an empty battlefield and began to play the international game in a friendly manner. But everyone knew in their hearts that the day after the game they would continue to fight on the same field.
4. "One-armed" men's football vs women's football
There was a very strange game in which we deserved special attention on four points: first, it was a match between the women's and men's teams; second, the two sides were against The United Kingdom and Canada; third, the men's players all played with their hands behind their backs; and fourth, the final result was 8-5.
Perhaps the strangest thing about this game is that male and female players are allowed to compete at the Same Place at the Confederation del d'Or stadium. After a period of ups and downs in women's football in the late 1880s, spurred on by the sport of sensible clothing, at the suggestion of Nitie Hornibor in England and Florent in Scotland (widely regarded as their proposal), the FA Commission issued an order on 25 August 1902 prohibiting matches between men's and women's soccer teams. They have established a divide-and-rule policy – men's and men's football matches, women's and women's football matches.
Northeast Naval Women's Soccer Team at the beginning of the last century
But the order did not prevent women from following the example of men. In the early years of the 20th century, six-a-side football matches on ice with wheel skates became popular in Brighton, and women soon began the sport. The goal of this ice soccer game is 6 feet high and 7 feet wide, which is larger than the goal of an ice hockey game, and the ball is the same size as a normal football, but the ball is injected with a pint of water to prevent the ball from bouncing too high. The players had two minutes to fix the skates.
During the First World War, when men were forced to fight, women in Britain replaced men in play, which became a boom in women's football. During this period, while the most significant progress was made by the Dick Cole factory women's soccer team, there were also a number of women's teams across the UK that also developed to varying degrees, most of whose members were factory women workers.
Recall that in 1895, the "Women's Column" of the Manchester Guardian severely criticized the way these female players played football, describing it as follows: "They did not seem to be playing, but dancing around the ball, and when they touched the ball, they always showed a look of not knowing how to be good." It's like a pug catching a cat and suddenly doesn't know what to do with it. "After The first game, the situation changed significantly and the women players could play very well. Portsmouth women's football team claimed that their captain Ida was "the best female player in the country" and revealed that a men's team once offered to exchange two male players for her, but the request was rejected by the FA.
Women's football was considered a big rebellion by society at that time
Matches during the war were usually charity matches, and in September 1917, women footballers playing at Elm Park stadium against a team of Canadian soldiers who had just recovered from their illness had donated £161 to various charities that year. And on Wednesday afternoon, they had bad luck, and the game may not have paid enough. The match was preceded by a performance by one of BillWood's bands, followed by a kick-off by a military doctor, General Foster, who was the head of the Canadian Medical Services Corps. The referee of the game was General Mayus, who was responsible for teaching soldiers to fight with bayonets and directing soldiers to exercise. But in fact, the role of the referee is not large, because there is no controversy in the game.
In the end, the women's team won the match 8-5, with Miss Barrell scoring 3 goals, Miss Small scoring 2 and Miss Bentley scoring 1. It was suspected that the Canadian soldiers might have been too chivalrous to lose the game. But in any case, as long as the male players are seen playing with their hands behind their backs, everyone thinks that this is just a recreational activity. It is not clear whether asking male players to do this is to balance the strength of both sides of the game, or to make female players feel safe.
The Dorman sisters were famous female footballers of the 190s
5. Race under a gas mask
The Royal Engineers have a long and extensive history of football, so even people wouldn't be overly surprised to see them playing with gas masks during World War I. In the first seven years of the FA Cup (1871-1878), the Royal Engineers experienced 32 knockout rounds, reached the final four times and won one trophy. They reached the final in the first FA Cup match in 1872, but lost 1-0. Their defender Creswell left the field 10 minutes after the start of the match with a fractured collarbone, otherwise the ending might have been different.
The Royal Engineers also won the 1908 FA Cup amateur team competition, and the memory of this victory is particularly clear from the outbreak of World War I. Training with gas masks became a regular form of training throughout the war.
When the game whistle blew, the players took out their gas masks, which they were not allowed to touch until they had put them on. During a match, the referee may blow a whistle to suspend the game and then ask the players to take off their masks. At this time, the players must put away the gas mask before they can touch the ball. The purpose of these requirements is, of course, to equip the Engineers players with the skills needed to play with masks. Since the officer did not want his soldiers to be seriously injured, the players would be heavily armed in these matches.
The overlord of the FA Cup, the Royal Engineers
If you think it's ridiculous that soldiers worry about being injured in the game far more than they might be in the war, consider what happened to Eddie Mason. Mason served for 7 years in the Royal Army 'Dragon Knight' and fought in the famous battles of the Marne, Yepps and Aisne rivers, surviving almost unscathed. However, he was badly injured within minutes of the start of his first game for Hull City in 1919, so much so that he missed the entire season.
6. Brightly dressed kickers
During the intermission in the war, Dick Cole, a women's soccer team, toured the united kingdom, the rest of Europe and the United States, the purpose of the tour was to raise money for charity. They won almost all the competitions. In their heyday, Dick Cole could attract up to five-figure attendance. At Goodison Park, more than 50,000 spectators came to the stadium (and that's not counting the fans who wandered the streets outside the stadium). Also, in a match they held in Paris, the game was suspended for 5 minutes as fanatical fans ran in to protest a corner decision made by the referee.
Dick is a crazy team. Of course, if you happen to be a member of the FA Men's Football Management Committee, the exception is that. In 1921, an adviser to the committee claimed that women's soccer teams were nothing more than recreational groups that used football for their benefit, and that they did not always raise enough money for charity. As a result, the FA began to ban women's teams from playing at major football venues.
Women's footballers at the end of the nineteenth century
Fortunately, as it often happens, such bans have led to even greater change. For example, in 1924, Dick and Bradford women's soccer team used novel floodlights to illuminate the show, which was so strong that you were said to be able to clearly see the show in the center of the venue, and the 1922 tour of the United States, when these Preston girls arrived, their promotional posters were so prominent that they even overshadowed a dozen American teams.
What an attraction the Dick team had in the 1921-1922 season! They compete from place to place (sometimes even double-times a week). They wore frilled garments and carried large bags of clothing that satisfied balls and basic household items such as boots, leg pads, cosmetics, hair pins, and more. The team's uniform is a black and white striped shirt and black and blue shorts. Some players wear hats woven with black and white thread to hold their hair in place, while those who don't have hats use hair pins to secure their hair. What a team this is! They own a French international goalkeeper, Carmen Pommy, who was a javelin champion before crossing the channel to Dick (now General Electric). The team also has a solid line of defense because they have players like Lily Lee and Alice Kyle, both of whom are veteran players with a lot of experience. The strength of this team is best reflected in the team's front line, their star center Flori Rudford, is simply a goal expert, she is extremely efficient (average about two per game), and, like all the great teams of the era, they have very skilled wingers Jenny Harris and Lily Parr. If Arsenal's Cliff Bastia can be awarded the title of "Basting", then Lily can be awarded the title of "Parr Girl". Her gymnastics in the match between Dick and St Helens at Fricksham gave the audience a superb visual treat, and she also scored the winning goal in the game. After the post-match celebrations, someone wrote a letter to the local newspaper, which was very representative, suggesting that it was time for Frexham to let Lily enter the Third Division (North).
Preston Women's Football was the strongest team at the time
It was in this atmosphere of touting and hero worship that the girls (all unmarried and mostly in their early 20s) set sail for the United States. At that time, the famous French boxer George Carpentier, the european boxing champion of heavyweight and lightweight, also happened to be on their boat. The girls thought Carpentier was so high, but they were lucky not to see him again a week after arriving in the United States, when he was knocked unconscious by his opponents during the match. When he was unlucky, the girls were still enjoying the fun of the football game. They showed their standards in the first few minutes of the tour. In a match against the Brooklyn-Paxon men's soccer team, Alice Woods once shook down McGini, known as the "Brooklyn one-armed striker.". However, in front of 5,000 spectators, Dick still lost the game 3-6.
The new Bedford match was their fifth leg on the tour, where they were tied twice and trailed twice. Their pre-competition activities included singing at meetings of the Young Women's Christian Associations in the areas where they visited. The team's two wingers showed off the flexibility of their oral organs, but didn't give Lily Parr more room to perform that week. She twisted her knee joint while playing basketball and missed the football feast.
The sponsors of the match have already offered £1,000 and when the biggest football match in the history of new Bedford began, their faces were full of smiles as the English women's team and the local men's team could be seen in this game. Although the likelihood of a commotion in the game was extremely small, there were still several strong police officers at the scene to maintain order. Dick trailed twice at the start of the game, but each time Molly equalized. Flori then scored two more goals to give the women a 4-2 lead. Towards the end of the game, the men's footballers pressed forward and tried to pull the ball back. Then, in the minutes towards the end of the game, Flori Radford took the penalty but was saved by the opponent. However, this did not hinder the overall situation, and a minute later, the youngest player on the field, Jenny, scored the winning goal for the women's football team, fixing the score at 5-4.
Some people pointed out that the men's footballers were actually playing against themselves, and the second half of the game was extended for a period of time, but this did not have any impact on the outcome of the game. Described by the American media as a "brightly dressed kicker", the Preston women's soccer team completely conquered the Americans.
Women can also be a part of football