The Definitive Guide to Football

The main references to targets are within the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "objectives" in Cornish hurling. Carew described how plans were produced: "they pitch two bushes in the bottom, some 8 or ten foote asunder; and instantly against them, 10 or twelue [twelve] rati

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