History of Football

Football is one of the most popular sports all over the world. You must have heard about the English premier league football. But do you know the history of football or what is the origin of this popular sport? No. Not many people know where this sport originated from.

As per the legend, earlier balls were made from human skulls or animal skulls covered with cloth. During the Ts'in and Han Dynasties (255 BC-220 AD), Chinese people played ?tsu chu? wherein players passed their animal skin balls through the space in a net stretched between two poles. Not only Chinese but some Egyptian information also said that Greeks and Romans also played this game similar to football that includes carrying and kicking a ball. Well, according to the pre medieval era, the entire village used to get engrossed in this game wherein they used to kick a skull far away to a village square and the other village people kicked the skull back. The history of football was bit scary as they used human or animal skull as a ball but yet it shows that football existed for past hundreds and thousands of years. Every country is involved in evolving this popular sport. Not one specific country is credited to invent this kick ball game, but England showed more interest in this game and football started taking good shape.

The first ball came into existence in the year 1855 manufactured by Goodyear and in 1863 the first football association was found in England. As the days passed, the football association created a premier league football with 20 clubs. This premier league season starts from the month of August to May of next year. In this premier league season, each team plays 38 games that comes to 380 matches in the entire season. The 20 clubs in premier league football include Arsenal, Aston villa, Birmingham city, Blackburn rover, Bolton wanderers, Burnley, Chelsea, Everton, Fullham, Hull city, Liverpool, Manchester city, Manchester United, Portsmouth, Stoke city, Sunderland, Tottenham, West ham, Wigan and Wolverhampton.

The first season of premier league championship football known as the F.A premier league was held in the year 1992-93 where the English football results was dominated by Manchester United who became the champions of the season because of their high scored goals and number of matches won in the entire season. Well, the tradition of the premier league that started from 1992 is still continuing, and it may stay for longer as the football freaks will never lose their interest in this kick ball game.

F.A premier league is well recognized as Barclays premier league. Every year different clubs win the season but majority of the wins was grabbed by Manchester United as the premiership results say.

There are people who even love to try their luck by betting on the clubs and this increasing interest of people in betting gave birth to football betting odds. There are several websites that have come up with this idea of football betting odds and the winner of the betting is decided once the English football results are out.

Such football betting sites provide all the information on English football, they also constantly update their premier league news or premiership news to keep all football fans aware of the situation of the premier league.

Jon Richards is the author of this article on Football Betting Odds. Find more information about English Football Results here.