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Football tables can lead to hours and hours of at home fun. Along with that fun though, sometimes comes fighting and bickering over the rules of football. If you have your own football table at home, it is a good idea to establish a certain set of rules to avoid the fighting and arguing over what is fair and not fair. There are some basic rules of football that can be adapted into your home play of the game.

The basic objective of the game of football is to manipulate your rods which have a total of 13 players on them to score the ball in your opponent’s goal. Football is also called table football in the UK or table soccer in the U.S.

Here are some of the basic rules of football that you may want to make known at your personal football table.

Football tables come with nine balls. So that means whoever wins the best out of nine wins. This means that whoever reaches 5 wins first in a set wins the set. Sides of the table can be switched after each game of the set.

No matter how a ball gets into a goal (unless it is done by cheating with hands or other cheating methods) it is a gaol. It doesn’t matter if you messed up and scored in your own goal. It is still a goal for the other person.

No jarring or hitting the side of the football table to move the ball to your advantage.

No spinning of your rods.

When a player scores a goal the other player gets possession of the ball. This is the most fair way to play the game.

The game can be started with a coin toss or something like rock, paper, scissors if you prefer that. Just be sure that it is a fair game or toss to start off the football game.

Once a ball is set into play it must remain in play on the table until the ball is hit off the table, a goal is scored, a dead ball is declared, or a time out is called. A time out can only be called when a player is in possession of the ball. A time in will only be called when both players acknowledge that they are ready to resume the game play.

A ball is declared dead only when it has stopped it’s motion and neither player can reach the ball with any of their rods.

Remember that these are only the basic rules. You can choose to follow more advanced rules if you wish, but these make a great starting point for players who just want some friendly fun with football.

On the first weekend in June,anually the worlds greatest horse race takes place at Epsom Downs in Surrey England.The Derby was originally concieved in 1779 during an after race party following that years Oaks. Edward Smith-Stanley and Sir Charles Bunbury decided to set up a race for Englands top thoroughbreds and spun a coin to decide who would have the race named after them, Smith-Stanley (the 12th Earl of Derby) won the toss,the race so easily could of been called the Bunbury! Originally the race was run over a mile but was amended to 1 mile 4 furlongs in 1784 and changed to its present distance of 1 mile 4 furlongs and 10 yards in 1991. The most contraversial race in Derby history is undoubtably the race of 1913. Emily Davison a well known suffragette (a campaigner for the right for women to vote) threw herself in front of the Kings horse and later died from head injuries. The winner of the 1913 Derby was a horse named Craganour who was then disqualified and the result was awarded to Aboyeur who was a 100/1 shot. The disqualification of Craganour was shrouded in controversy,the horse was owned by Bower Ismay who was the brother of the then infamous Bruce Ismay a man who had been accused of disguising himself as a woman to enable himself a place on a lifeboat to escape the sinking Titanic. In 1991 the race was won by the widest winning margin ever, 10 lengths, by Shergar who was later to be abducted by the IRA and whose body has never been recovered. The great Lester Piggott holds the record for the most Derby wins with 9, only one woman, Alex Greaves, has ridden in the Derby to date. The fastest winner was Lammtara in 1991 and the 1838 winner Amato never raced before or after his win. There are few races that capture the imagination of the racing public quite like the English Derby, for over two hundred years the best thoroughbreds of their generation have showed their best at the Epsom course, long may it continue.