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Poetry | ‘View well this Ball, the present of your Lords …’
We publish an excerpt from Matthew Concanen the Elder’s 1720 canto describing a six-a-side football match in Dublin—at variance with a traditional view that only the frenzied folk football variety was contested at the time. The players “around the field in decent order stand …” (Mar 13)
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Writes Eduardo Galeano of the new collection from 
University of Nebraska Press, The Global Game: Writers on Soccer, "At the end, soccer believers will confirm ... that they have never been alone. And pagans will be converted." Go to website »
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I don't know, that question, why do I play football? It's like why do you drink water? (Raja Ghazali, as told to Nicole Matuska, "Players on a Masculine Stage," The Global Game, 1 Oct 07)
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