Calling all World Cup Widows and Widowers! Research your Ancestry and Family Tree as an antidote.
Whilst our friends and relatives are glued to the football matches of the World Cup and our neighbourhood is festooned with football flotsam and jetsam, we suggest that for those who find the whole World cup mania a tiring if not tiresome thing that now is the time to concentrate on your family history and look at your family tree. Tracing your family tree is as absorbing a pastime as any football tussle. With 'extra time' on your hands why not fill in our on line form and one of our experts will contact you to discuss your research prospects
17 June 2010

Our ancestors as football fans and the echo of their chants, from our family history to the present day Also revealed: Chubby Victorian footballer who inspired 'who ate all the pies'.
Julia Cresswell, author of The Cat's Pyjamas: The Penguin Book of Clichés, delved through documents and records at Oxford University's Bodleian Library, to try and find the first recorded use for many phrases. The origin of the football chant 'who ate all the pies' has been revealed and found to have been inspired by a chubby Victorian footballer.
His name was William 'Fatty' Foulke, a rather large Victorian goalkeeper who inspired the derisory football terrace chant 'who ate all the pies?'.
Researchers discovered the origins of the mocking football chant and many other of the English language's most colourful chants, clichés and catchphrases.
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