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• “Historically, football fans have been demonised,” he says.

• It comes together over football, and it falls apart over football.

• The professional Arena Football League plays an indoor version of football.

• Elite students in the mid-19th century called association football “assoccer” to distinguish it from “rugger”, rugby football.

• American (gridiron) football is played at the stadium in the National Football League International Series.

• Flag football is somewhat more challenging than touch football and less open to disagreements about “tackling.”

• Arsenal, in full Arsenal Football Club, byname the Gunners, English professional football (soccer) team based in London.

• In 1920 professional football teams formed the organization that would later be called the National Football League (NFL).

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• Chelsea Football Club (FC), nicknamed “the Blues,” is one of the world’s richest, biggest, and most-supported football clubs.

• BBC Three documentary about how the football family is at its strongest in difficult times, and about the power of football to bring communities together.

• Australian rules football, a football sport distinctive to Australia that predates other modern football games as the first to create an official code of play.

• "It's always been football, football, football and sometimes there are situations that come up, it puts football aside for a moment", Rashford said.

• Fearghal talks to football coach Séamus Ó Tuama and to football analyst Máire Ní Bhraonáin about all the action from the final weekend of national football league action.

• Cleveland Browns, American professional gridiron football team based in Cleveland that plays in the American Football Conference (AFC) of the National Football League (NFL).

• For instance, Canada has its own version of gridiron football; Ireland is home to Gaelic football; and Australia is mad about Australian rules football (which is derived from rugby).

• As Noël Le Graët, President of French football, said: “The first satisfaction is to have proved that a women’s football competition can win popular support and help to change the perception of women’s football.

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• Super Bowl, in U.S. professional gridiron football, the championship game of the National Football League (NFL), played by the winners of the league’s American Football Conference and National Football Conference each January or February.

• In football news, Kyril Louis-Dreyfus has become the youngest chairman in English football after his protracted takeover of Sunderland was finally approved by the English Football League on Thursday, writes our north-east football correspondent Louise Taylor.

• Canadian Football League (CFL), major Canadian professional gridiron football organization, formed in 1956 as the Canadian Football Council, created by the Western Interprovincial Football Union (WIFU) and the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union (IRFU).

• Following that, former sports minister Helen Grant has a Ten Minute Rule Bill, calling for an independent football regulator for England to be established, with powers to license football clubs, distribute funds within football, review English Football League club finances, and reform the governance of the Football Association.