Talk:Foot-Ball Club
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It's not Soccer
[edit]Sorry folks, but the kind of "football" described here would be more like rugby than the "association football" which has hijacked the name today.--MacRusgail (talk) 15:57, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- What is that claim based on? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.105.164.99 (talk) 15:14, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
- I agree with the your rewording of the text, but putting it in a defunct 'rugby union' category is also as misleading. I've decategorised it from all categories relating to modern sports and left it as Category:Sports teams in Edinburgh --Pretty Green (talk) 17:13, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
- I've replaced this. It seems to be standard practice to include pre-split rugby under RU. --MacRusgail (talk) 17:44, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
Biased?
[edit]"a form of football that did not resemble association football.[1] Nevertheless, the organisation can claim to be the earliest recorded club playing football of any kind" This does not read like the kind of sentence you expect on Wikipedia, and what sources support that it "did not resemble association football"? Certainly not the one given