Comments on: Books | For centuries, life has had its uppies and downies

By: ALYCE

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By: The Global Game | Literature | Why Samuel Pepys was deemed unfit for the writers’ XI

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:25:13 +0000

[...] The first mention of “football,” according to Hugh Hornby in Uppies and Downies (see 12 Mar 08), occurs in a London mayoral proclamation from 1314—further in the past to Pepys than Pepys is to [...]

By: John Turnbull

John Turnbull — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:28:54 +0000

I did not ask this question, because I assume that, as curator of the National Football Museum, Hugh Hornby had heard it many, many times. He comes from Lancashire and supports Preston North End. If he is related to the Fever Pitch author, he did not get the Arsenal gene.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:47:43 +0000

This looks like an excellent book. Is the author related to Nick Hornby?

By: The Global Game | Poetry | ‘View well this Ball, the present of your Lords …’

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 03:52:00 +0000

[...] six-a-side game rather than the frenzy associated with period folk football (see the review of Uppies and Downies). The excerpt below comes from “Canto II,” as the match gets under [...]