Highlights of UK football through the ages

The most well respected and also the oldest national cup competition in the world, the FA Cup was fist held in 1872. As of now it is open to 600 clubs in levels which range till 11 of the football pyramid. The first official football tournament which was held in the Summer Olympics of 1908 saw the United Kingdom national football team winning a gold medal, though the teams then competed under separate names of Ireland and Great Britain. Chelsea and Arsenal were the first clubs in the world to feature shirt numbers on the jerseys that they sported in a match on 25th August 1928. The way to the participation of England in the World Cup was paved by the decision of the Football Association to end their boycott with the FIFA in 1946. An elite league of 22 clubs which replaced the old football League First Division as England’s highest division, the FA Premier League was created by the Football Association in 1992. In an attempt to make sure that the football scoring is fair, an attempt was made to introduce electronic media following the disallowed goal by Frank Lampard in the 2010 World Cup.
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