THE BEST SIDE OF FOOTBALL

The initial references to plans are within the late 16th and early 17th centuries. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "objectives" in Cornish hurling. Carew explained how plans were manufactured: "they pitch two bushes in the bottom, some 8 or 10 foote asunder; and specifically against them, ten or twelue [twel