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Who wore the first shin guards?

Shin guards, which are now required kit under the Laws of the Game, were first introduced in 1874 by Sam Widdowson, a player for Nottingham Forest. Widdowson cut down a pair of cricket shin pads and strapped them to the outside of his stockings. He was initially ridiculed, but the protective value of the pads could not be denied and they eventually caught on.

Quickies

Did you know …

that a professional soccer player runs an average of 6.2 miles in a game and burns 1,000 to 1,500 calories?

What is the “Acme Thunderer”?

Through the 1860s and 1870s, Joseph Hudson, an English toolmaker from Birmingham, was using his home bathroom as a whistle-making workshop, but it wasn’t until 1884 that he invented the Acme Thunderer, which is credited as the world’s first reliable pea whistle and quickly became the whistle of choice for British soccer referees.

Fouls That Will Lead to an Indirect Free Kick