Josh Adams scores a try for the Welsh rugby union team at the 2019 Men’s Rugby Union World Cup
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FOOTBALL in its various forms is a game of class clashes and competing codes dating back to the late 19th century, when a disorderly game developed various sets of laws and regulations to become the group of global sports we know today.
Chaos didn’t quite turn into order, but the various offshoots of mob football, or Cnapan in Wales, became increasingly organised and their potential to become spectator sports became apparent.
Wales played a key part in the development of these games, and that rugby union took hold as the code of choice, becoming the national sport ahead of the association (soccer) game, was the result of a rugby togetherness which doesn’t exist in England. A union in all senses of the word.
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