As easy as pie. The rules of football are far from being the most complicated in the world. Just put the ball in the net. Then one of the two teams must do it more than the other and the game is won. Agree, there is even more difficult, and that is why football is the most popular sport on the planet. As proof, the World Cup is the most watched sporting event on the surface of the Earth, for example, 700 million people are interested in the 2010 World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands.

Own goal... right?

But before getting there, football faltered and started wisely...in England. For the first official "football" competition, we must go back to September 1888. On the eighth day of the ninth month of the year, the first official matches of what is now called the Premier League were played. So it is with his first exploits.

Because if we know very well the origin of Madger, Panenka or even the one who won the first Ballon d'Or (Stanley Matthews for those who would have a hole), we never wondered who could have scored the first goal of a sport that we love so much. Paradoxical, but nevertheless very true.

Therefore, it is in England that you must scour to find out who was the first person to raise their hands to the sky to celebrate a goal. And the height of disappointment when we learn that this first goal in question is nothing but... an own goal. The work of a certain Gershaw Cox, Aston Villa defender, during a meeting with Wolverhampton after half an hour of play, reports the BBC. A bit of a sad start for such a popular sport. So we thought, until the historian made a funny discovery. Find out also what problems Hearts had with Celtic, and who is to blame for everything, in this article: https://thecelticstar.com/hearts-have-a-problem-with-celtic-and-its-all-albert-kidds-fault/

"Beautiful" goal

Mark Metcalfe happened to notice that the said meeting between the two teams, originally scheduled for 3:00 p.m., had been delayed by half an hour. Reason? Sunday work. At the time we were working on Sunday mornings and Aston Villa (Birmingham) fans would never get to the stadium on time. The part that put the chip in our researcher's ear and found the answer in the columns of the Midland Evening News.

But then who could score the first goal in the history of football? Rest assured, the answer is known and it is much more festive. On the same day, another meeting was scheduled: Bolton against Derby County. There, too, the meeting began with a slight delay, 15:45 instead of 30, but the attackers were faster in the legs. It took only two minutes for a Bolton midfielder, one Kenny Davenport, to deceive the opposing goalkeeper's vigilance. It still has more of a mouth than CSC. "It's like the tombs in Egypt, it's a little mystery solved," Gordon Taylor, president of the English Football Federation (FA), said enthusiastically during the opening. In the meantime, Cristiano Ronaldo, from Bugatti to the island: find out all the craziest gifts and expenses from this source.

And finally, what did that goal look like? He was "cute", according to a summary of the Cricket and Football Field meeting at the time. Everything comes at the right time to those who know how to wait ... On the other hand, for the sake of images, one will have to be content with the plot.