Written specially for students of English, this English Language Teaching (ELT/ESL) eBook is a pre-intermediate Macmillan Reader. The history of football is as fascinating and exciting as the sport itself. Patrick Adams describes football from its humble (and sometimes violent) beginnings in Central and South America, and its emergence on the streets of 19th-century England as a recognised game, to the international stadiums, big business and multi-million pound players of today.