Category Archives: The Finals

The Finals: Index

Prologue: The Moment Of Moments An outline of this series, and a look at just why international Finals are the spectacle that they are. 1896: A Disputed Beginning Did football take place at the first Olympics, and if so what … Continue reading

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The Finals – 1906: One Half

To read the previous entry in this series, please click here. It is easy to forget in these days when the Olympics is an event so massive that not even a worldwide pandemic can completely stop its course, that its … Continue reading

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The Finals – 1904: A Scotsman In Canada

To read the previous entry in this series, please click here. From discussions on whether a game took place at all to a three-way competition of clubs that was only recognised as such decades later, we come to the first … Continue reading

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The Finals – 1900: The Amateurs, The Indigenous And The Students

To see the previous entry in this series, please click here. Four years after the 1896 Olympic football final/demonstration that may or may not have taken place, both the Olympics and Olympic football were back, this time in a much … Continue reading

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The Finals – Prologue: The Moment Of Moments

Introducing a new series to the site, one that I hope will serve as something of a spiritual sequel to 211 To 1, my effort to provide a running collection of reflections to the qualification for, and Finals of, the … Continue reading

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