Challenges are advertised. Rushden challenge Wellingborough, to a fairer match, considering the previous conduct of their fans ‘most unfair and unjustifiable’. And in 1842, Hampton-In-Arden challenge Buckenhill to an eight-a-side, for a bottle of wine a man and dinner. Buckenhill can only muster six. It is to be the best of three, played on a pitch one hundred and twenty yards long, and with goals six feet high and ten feet wide. This is the first record of the height of a goal. After a game lasting two to three hours, Buckenhill win by nine by-goals and two through-goals to two by-goals.
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