{"id":20216,"date":"2022-12-07T12:09:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=221341"},"modified":"2022-12-07T12:42:12","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:42:12","slug":"football-in-the-first-world-war","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/football-in-the-first-world-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Football in the First World War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Spencer Mizen\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Wednesday, 07 December 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body> <p>Why wasn\u2019t football banned on the home front when men were fighting and dying in France and Belgium? Did war halt the march of commercialisation in the sport? And why did the number of red cards surge between 1914 and 1918? From goal gluts to illegal player payments, Alexander Jackson tells Spencer Mizen how the First World War changed the face of English football.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-221341-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/FootballWW1-8ed904b.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/FootballWW1-8ed904b.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/12\/FootballWW1-8ed904b.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><strong>Alexander Jackson is the author of <em>Football\u2019s Great War: Association Football on the English Home Front<\/em> (Pen &amp; Sword, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/football-s-great-war-association-football-on-the-english-home-front-1914-1918-alexander-jackson\/18093066?ean=9781399002202&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Footballs-Great-War-Association-Football\/dp\/1399002201?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; noopener noreferrer\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\"><strong>Buy now on Amazon<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/go.skimresources.com?id=71026X1535947&amp;xcust=historyextra-social-histboty&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.waterstones.com%2Fbook%2Ffootballs-great-war%2Fjackson-alexander%2F9781399002202&quot;\">Buy now on Waterstones<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul> <\/body><\/html>\n<hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Spencer Mizen Published: Wednesday, 07 December 2022 at 12:00 am Why wasn\u2019t football banned on the home front when men were fighting and dying in France and Belgium? Did war halt the march of commercialisation in the sport? And why did the number of red cards surge between 1914 and 1918? 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