Week 13 Main report: Folk Football


This week's main report looks at the earliest version of the Beautiful Game, Folk Football, which emerged during the Middle Ages in England. The transcript can be found below, while vocabulary support can be found for the words in bold at the foot of the post.

Listen to the report here Introduction

Football has often been described as the people's game it is, after all, the most popular sport in the world with millions playing each week.