Soccer evidently got started when the victors of the Battle of Hastings (1066) lopped off the head of the deposed army leader and kicked it around the battlefield. It’s clear to see where the no hands rule came from, “yar cap’in – it’s a bloody mess!”.
By 1314, soccer, along with golf, was so popular that King Edward II had to ban both because the warrior nation needed more skillful archers trained in case of war, and soccer and golf added few battle skills to aid in the country’s defense. “Mess with us we’ll bean you with our niblicks” might have scared the French into avoiding golf entirely, but the Huns merely laughed and met golf clubs with mace and double-edged broadswords and world-class pillaging.
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