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	Cornish invented football
Fulub-le-Breton	Posted: 28.08.2005, 20:40
registered: Sep. 2004 Posts: 4559 Status: offline last visit: 02.12.08	Cornish invented football and rugby, or at least the predecessor for these modern games. http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/society_culture/society/sport_01.shtml


Kernow	Posted: 28.08.2005, 23:29
registered: Sep. 2004 Posts: 248 Status: offline last visit: 19.03.07	Ginsters never made round pasties............


morgarrow	Posted: 04.09.2005, 12:59
registered: May. 2005 Posts: 373 Status: offline last visit: 28.11.08	Talking about pasties and thinking of a link to stupid ideas to test national loyalties (remembering here what was said by the reactionary duffer Norman Tebbit who 15 years ago questioned loyalties of immigrants who continued to support the cricket teams of their countries of origin rather than England" and who more recently said, "if more had been done at that time to integrate immigrants into mainstream UK culture, London may not have been attacked by British-born suicide bombers." ) ...what about giving the pasty test to those wishing to purchase a second home in Cornwall e.g. if they don't know the proper ingredients of a pasty for example they say swede instead of turnip, minced beef instead of skirt and pick up a knife and fork to eat it instead of using their hand they get their second home, but one situated in the "Suuni Triangle" in Iraq or alternatively the West Bank in Palestine. If they get it right they don't get their second home but a years supply of Cornwall's worst pasties [no names no pack drill] that will help them wean themselves off of any idea of ever buying a second home here.


morgarrow	Posted: 04.09.2005, 22:45
registered: May. 2005 Posts: 373 Status: offline last visit: 28.11.08	Sorry back on a more serious note - when I was young i.e. much more younger than today (sounds like a good title for a song) we used to call rugby, football. Probably 'cause there was no soccer played to speak of and everyone knew what you meant and I suppose it was shorthand for rugby football. That was down west and I don't know if that was the case elsewhere? Some might say "matter do a?"


Fulub-le-Breton	Posted: 05.09.2005, 12:34
registered: Sep. 2004 Posts: 4559 Status: offline last visit: 02.12.08	madder f***!


morgarrow	Posted: 06.09.2005, 00:01
registered: May. 2005 Posts: 373 Status: offline last visit: 28.11.08	That sounds a bit rude flb ??? Soccer a simple form of rugby for those who don't want their brains to get over-worked so it couldn't have been a Cornish invention.


Anonymous	Posted: 11.07.2006, 13:35
Unregistered User	yeah your right the Cornish did'nt invent football (socccer) thats why your s hit at it.......


TGG	Posted: 11.07.2006, 17:06
registered: Aug. 2005 Posts: 1109 Status: offline last visit: 02.12.08	Quotemorgarrow Posted: Sep 04, 2005 - 10:45 PM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry back on a more serious note - when I was young i.e. much more younger than today (sounds like a good title for a song) we used to call rugby, football. That certainly used to be the case also in mid-Cornwall! Soccer was the rare round one and football (aka rugby) the real one! Indication of an imposed cultural change, not only reserved for sport TGG


AndyQ	Posted: 16.07.2006, 14:04
registered: Aug. 2004 Posts: 733 Status: offline last visit: 17.02.07	Quote yeah your right the Cornish did'nt invent football (socccer) thats why your s hit at it....... Well England supposedly invented football and look at them, not exactly doing very well on the world stage themselves are they matey!!


48Crash	Posted: 17.07.2006, 08:57
registered: Aug. 2004 Posts: 221 Status: offline last visit: 19.12.07	'That certainly used to be the case also in mid-Cornwall' And in North Cornwall - we don't have any fields flat enough for soccer. And it's a girl's game anyway (runs away at this point).


Coady	Posted: 02.11.2006, 23:55
registered: May. 2006 Posts: 2059 Status: offline last visit: 23.11.08	I don't know about football....but Cornwall has the current World Champion Ladies Thai Kickboxing Champion (in one of the disciplines)


Hen	Posted: 03.11.2006, 03:31
registered: Dec. 2005 Posts: 772 Status: offline last visit: 19.02.07	Well I know for a fact the Cornish didn't invent AFL. Here we have football (union and league), AFL and soccer. Some sick buggers even support Grid Iron, but that's a girls game really.

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