No les gustaba mucho el fútbol

[pjt33]

Originally Posted by Perikles

By the way, there used to be just football in England, until the school of Rugby invented a variation of football involving cheating by holding the ball in your hand, and much more violence. This was known as Rugby football, then just Rugby. The original football was known as Association Football...

Nonsense. Each public school had its own variation of football. Someone at Cambridge University decided to get together representatives from different schools to agree some consensus rules, so that people from different schools could play together - they met in a room in Trinity College which today has a plaque commemorating the event and costs about £200 more per term than the equivalent room on the next staircase - and this led to Association football being defined at about the same time as the innovation of carrying the ball in Rugby.

[Perikles]

I stand corrected, but hardly nonsense.

[hermit]

Re: "Who cares?"

Heresy with humour...I laughed out loud...

[pjt33]

I was using the word in the idiomatic ("not true") rather than the literal ("not grammatical") sense.