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Offline orm1

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New Football Miniatures
« on: October 01, 2018, 11:36:52 AM »
Ainsty Castings will soon be releasing this set of football teams

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2018, 05:31:04 PM »
Oh, you mean soccer not real US football.  :D

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2018, 06:50:27 PM »
Ours was invented first, so IT is 'Football', later 'versions' are named accordingly,
e.g. Rugby football, Gaelic football, Aussie rules football and American football.

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2018, 12:21:42 PM »
They are not real footballers anyway......not nearly enough stupid haircuts  ;)

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2018, 01:35:42 PM »
Ours was invented first, so IT is 'Football', later 'versions' are named accordingly,
e.g. Rugby football, Gaelic football, Aussie rules football and American football.

Well, it isn't really as simple as that. After all, Soccer (an English name, by the way, not something made up by Americans) has one of those qualifier names too: Association Football. It's no more the original than any of the others you mentioned.

There were a myriad games called "Football" hailing from the middle ages: mostly violent, lawless affairs where you could handle or kick the ball. I think Rugby school had their own distinctive version by the 1830s, which eventually developed into modern Rugby. The Rules of Soccer were codified in the 1860s when the FA was founded (based on earlier rules from the 1840s, I think), and American football also developed around that time. All this seems to have come from the Victorian impulse to impose rules and order onto the chaos that was the medieval game of football.

Not much point arguing who has the right to the name, they all do. It's all football, really.


(Cricket is better than all of them, anyway.)





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Offline Smokeyrone

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #5 on: October 02, 2018, 02:44:14 PM »
Well, it isn't really as simple as that. After all, Soccer (an English name, by the way, not something made up by Americans) has one of those qualifier names too: Association Football. It's no more the original than any of the others you mentioned.

There were a myriad games called "Football" hailing from the middle ages: mostly violent, lawless affairs where you could handle or kick the ball. I think Rugby school had their own distinctive version by the 1830s, which eventually developed into modern Rugby. The Rules of Soccer were codified in the 1860s when the FA was founded (based on earlier rules from the 1840s, I think), and American football also developed around that time. All this seems to have come from the Victorian impulse to impose rules and order onto the chaos that was the medieval game of football.

Not much point arguing who has the right to the name, they all do. It's all football, really.


(Cricket is better than all of them, anyway.)


There's only one "Football".    If you dont have a Miami Hurricanes, You are talking about "Futbol".

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #6 on: October 02, 2018, 02:52:28 PM »

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #7 on: October 02, 2018, 10:03:56 PM »
Let’s be quite clear here. To qualify as a sporting pursuit, a game has to have been invented, codified or popularised by a Victorian Englishman. Preferable one that is played at a publc school. In this way, football (Association AKA soccer), Rugby (Union only) and cricket qualify as sports. Rounders, dickheads running about in crash helmets and the lobbing of horsehoes do not.
« Last Edit: October 02, 2018, 10:05:52 PM by carlos marighela »
Em dezembro de '81
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3 a 0 no Liverpool
Ficou marcado na história
E no Rio não tem outro igual
Só o Flamengo é campeão mundial
E agora seu povo
Pede o mundo de novo

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2018, 12:39:43 AM »
That was a good one, Carlos  :)

Offline orm1

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2018, 10:35:38 PM »
One of the ainsty football figures painted

Offline carlos marighela

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2018, 03:22:48 AM »
That looks remarkably similar to the Eureka ones, although I assume it's a head or more taller.

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #11 on: November 19, 2018, 08:03:43 PM »
(Cricket is better than all of them, anyway.)
Are you from Philadelphia?

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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #12 on: November 23, 2018, 10:47:54 AM »
Dug-out set with subs, manager and physio available now too...



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Re: New Football Miniatures
« Reply #13 on: December 16, 2018, 09:15:22 PM »
The classic 'magic sponge' introduces a fantasy element.