Relatively little is known about some of the eight, who met at the Freemasons Tavern in London's Covent Garden on Oct. 26 1863 to codify the first 13 laws of the game which gave rise to the global spread of the sport. The FA is searching both within ...

... a search to find the living descendants of the founding fathers of football, i.e, the eight men who together outlined the 13 original “laws” of the game and bound them together to produce association football's first official rule book in the ...