How did soccer form develop?

From all the legends and theories that have been developed on the cradle of the sport, one may need to ask the question, where exactly did football come from? According to most scholars, the most viable source of soccer can be traced to England, which started from the eighth up to the nineteenth century. It is such a long time for a sport to develop and grow, and all this can be put into perspective by looking at the British Isles. It is from the football that other forms of sport developed such as rugby and the Gaelic football also came to develop in Ireland. One needs to understand the proximity of the geographical location of these two countries to try and create a correlation between the sports and the origin of these sports.

There is also need to understand that the original setting of football was not structured and that it was more of people coming from villages and to the squares and streets and chasing after the ball. There were incidences of violence, and the lack of any order made such actions to escape even the common people, as there was no referee to defend and create order. Interestingly, there were times in which kicking of the ball did not take place. Instead, the people could kick other players could kick other players as a way of settling any past grudges that the people could be held against each other. The ball would also be so heavy to the extent that kicking it would hurt the players, which brings out the humorous part of the traditional football understanding the football.

However, there came a time when football became a game of rules and numbers. One of the initial changes that were implemented to the football was the size of the football pitch and the number of players who could get involved in a football match. The inclination being that the evolution of the game should not be seen as having taken such a drastic long period, but it sought to try and have some order. In this instance, the weight of the ball and the number of footballers in the pitch were regulated. Thus, the first modern that was played with these rules was between London against Sheffield in 1866, further giving validity to the argument that London forms the cradle of modern football.