There are 20 teams in the English Premier League and 12 in the Scottish Premiership? The football experts at FIFA (the football organisation, not the blam game) reckon there are 3,900 professional teams in 201 countries around the world. The word 'soccer' comes from the term Association Football, which sounds really fancy, especially if you say it in an old-fashioned radio voice. People in Canada and the United States of America call it soccer so they don't get it confused with the other one. If you wanted to watch, you had to go and stand on the sidelines, no matter what the weather was like. And we can say for certain that games were not televised at all. Pies and programmes were not available at early games, as far as we know. Did you know that football was invented in China? Originally called 'cuju', the first version of the game originated in the Han dynasty more than 2000 years ago.
