12 Metaphors for footballs

And even you are youthful When thou art near, love, Not, love, unless, Thick soup is clear, love, Football is chess.

"Football is no baby play, and somebody is bound to get hurt.

Football was the favorite game; and the boys of the schools, and the various guilds of craftsmen, had each their ball.

And football was his earlier love.

Thanks to the centuries-old legacy, starting with the presence of the British troops in Goa and the Portuguese, both of whom had a passion for the game, football still remained the craze in the state and it prospered with players using the paddy fields to hone their skills.

A fellow that wanted sport, if only football, could not be a bad sort.

After football were other classes, classes in which it was sometimes very hard to keep awake, for the school was old, and the badly ventilated class-rooms were stuffy after the fresh air.

Football is a great benefactor in that way, March.

Football was their favourite sport, and the British Tommy is such a remarkable fellow that it was usual to see him trudge home to camp looking 'fed up' with exercise, and then, after throwing off his pack and tunic, run out to kick a ball.

Provided always the boy is teachable, (for we are not proposing to make a statue out of punk,) football, cricket, archery, swimming, skating, climbing, fencing, riding, are lessons in the art of power, which it is his main business to learn,riding specially, of which Lord Herbert of Cherbury said, "A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him."

Joel had practiced every day except Sundays, and had just arrived at the conclusion that football as played at Harwell was no relation, not even a distant cousin to the game of a similar name played at Hillton.

Football, bating its roughness, is the most glorious of all games to those whose animal life is sufficiently vigorous to enjoy it.

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