TOP FOOTBALL SECRETS

The main references to goals are in the late sixteenth and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "aims" in Cornish hurling. Carew described how targets had been manufactured: "they pitch two bushes in the ground, some 8 or 10 foote asunder; and directly versus them, ten or twelue [twelve] sco