Football became the game we know today during the reign of Queen Victoria in the nineteenth century. So many different (21)_________ of the game were being played in Britain at that time, that in the 1863 the Football Association was (22)_________ in order to draw up and agree the (23)_________ of the game.
Throughout the country new football (24)_________ were built and the development of the railways (25)_________ that football teams and their (26)_________ could travel to the matches. In 1888 The Football League was (27)_________ up with twelve clubs, and football became a national sport, (28)_________ to rugby by many people as the more popular game of the (29)_________.
Sometimes people play the game in just a field. In one town, Burnley, in the north of England, the field had a river (30)_________ along the side of it in which players took baths after matches.