Nominal record linkage indicates that this development was essentially driven by schoolteachers, clerks, bookkeepers and accountants using their social and cultural capital rather than the transference of public school culture through returning public schoolboys.

Reaction: This is interesting how a sport like soccer that was not played by all used by schools. What was the purpose if not a lot of people played it?

The counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire were, however, to maintain their fierce rivalry and, by the nineteenth century, this had translated onto the sporting field. Part of this rivalry will be examined in this article as we identify and discuss the contribution of the two counties in the north of England and their distinctive roles in the creation of modern professional association football.(1427)

Reaction: In class we talked about how soccer was a way of showing superiority well this stanza shows that you can be united but you will always have differences. Also we see that the creation of soccer was drawn from other sports like rugby and the rules and regulations were implemented as the years moved along. We start to see a discrepancy in who followed which rules the FA or the Sheffield’s.  Along with not knowing what rules to follow both contradicted one another. To answer the question of who invented soccer I feel that it came together as the years went on. We see that rules were created and then changed by other individuals to make the game different than Rugby. Schools were also important in the spread of the game also.