Talk:Cnapan

I disagree with whoever it was who said that Cnapan is an ancient form of football. It was never in the "football" category of games since the ball could not be kicked -- it was made of wood, and was too hard for kicking. But the ball was passed, smuggled or thrown from one player to another, and from what we know about the rules it has a much better claim to being the real forerunner of RUGBY as we know it today. there were forwards, threequarters, lineouts and scrummages, mauls and rucks. Never mind this nonsense about Rugby School and young Webb Ellis who picked up the ball and ran with it; Wales was where the game of rugby started, as Cnapan, some time in the Middle Ages!

Ridiculous Article
"Wales won easily, partly because the English team did not know the rules!"

Come on - has the person who wrote this never read anything on Wikipedia before? This exclamation mark is a huge no-go.

Similarly atrocious is the sentence starting "As far as we know <...>" under the Rules section. Very poor. I have removed the exclamation mark at least. DanTheShrew (talk) 08:36, 21 August 2009 (UTC)


 * Agree, I have adjusted and added a tag. Although not sure what you meant by the heading here. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:46, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

Connection with modern codes of football
The Shrovetide ball game codified by Public schools which led to the creation of Rugby football and Cambridge rules football on which Association football is based was called "Football". As with many other ball games played to celebrate Christmas, Shrovetide and Easter in and around the British Isles Cnapan failed to evolve and died out. Characteristic elements of Cnapan existed in many other Shrovetide ball games. Football played with a bladder inflated ball also allowed for the spot kick, drop kick, volley, half volley, dribbling and header all of which feature in modern football games. However, Public schools took students from all over the Britain and Ireland who brought with them knowledge of ball games similar to football played in their region. These influences would have been available to the various schools when codifying the football games played at each school. It is in this collective context that Cnapan can be seen as one of the forerunners of modern codes of football. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adrian Roebuck (talk • contribs) 14:19, 12 June 2013 (UTC)

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