Despite the contemporization of the game, there was still a big problem that had plagued football manufacturers for 50 years. The air continuously leaked out of the rubber bladder inside the ball.

An air bladder is then inserted and the football is laced together by hand. A football’s shape is not actually a ball in the spherical sense of the word, but a prolate spheroid: oblong ...

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Picture a football (soccer ball) in your head and you probably see ... made with leather panels wrapped around some form of rubber bladder. As it’s not easy to produce a seamless leather sphere ...

There are records of people kicking around a pig’s bladder in villages ... as “folkball” or “folk football”. The aim of the game was to place the ball in a designated area - through ...

In 1833, Hope created the first known set of football rules, notably banning carrying the ball and establishing ... so as to insert and inflate a new bladder (at up to £4 [In modern values ...