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The FA Cup, or Football Association Challenge Cup to give it its full title, is the oldest football competition in the world. It was started in 1871, when it was suggested that “a Challenge Cup ought to be established in connection with the Association”.

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Although there are references to Native Americans playing ball games, modern American football has its origins in traditional ball games played in villages and schools in Europe for several centuries before America was discovered by Europeans.

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A review of the nicknames used by English football teams reveals a beguiling insight into English social history over the last 150 years.

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Football, soccer or ?The Beautiful Game? – are all names employed to describe the most well-liked team game in the world. Although the words football and soccer are essentially interchangeable in the UK they have very different meanings in North America.

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Rugby is a very popular sport throughout the world, and is played within all of the countries of the old British Empire and Commonwealth. The best countries are those that reside in the southern hemisphere such as New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. In addition to this certain British countries such as England, Ireland, and Wales, as well as France are consistently competing at the highest level. Every four years there is a Rugby World Cup is held in order to find out which is the best team in the world.

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Though the event is due to be broadcast live in 3D for the first time, there is nothing like being up close and personal with the world’s greatest football show. As such, it could well be time to take advantage of one of the 2010 World Cup packages that are available.

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