Primitive football was more disorganised, more violent, more spontaneous and usually
played by an indefinite number of players. Frequently, games took the form of a heated contest
between whole villages - through streets and squares, across fields, hedges, fences and streams.
Kicking was allowed , as in fact was almost everything else. Sometimes kicking the ball
was out of the question due to the size and weight of the sphere being used -
in such cases, kicking was instead limited to taking out opponents.