In 1314, Edward II, then the King of England, said about a sport of football and the use of footballs, "certain tumults arising from great footballs in the fields of the public, from which many evils may arise."[1] An account of an exclusively kicking "football" game from Nottinghamshire in the fifteenth century bears similarity to association football.[4] By the 16th centuries references to organised teams and goals had appeared. There is evidence for refereed, team football games being played in English schools since at least 1581.[3] The eighteenth-century Gymnastic Society of London is, arguably, the world's first football club.