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A recent New Yorker cartoon explains the game of soccer with
disarming simplicity: “Here’s a ball. Try to get it in the goal. One rule: You
may not use your hands. Go.”
As the final four nations vie for the 2014 World Cup title
in Brazil, Joe Janes of the University of Washington Information School looked
into the game’s history and rules for his Documents that Changed the World
podcast series, and found nothing simple about them — thanks in part to the
English.