official unveiling: 12 may 2018 parker’s piece

commemorative newspaper produced by the artists neville gabie and alan ward

global partners: street child united, cambridge and shanghai greenland shenhua football club

the commission designs for parker’s piece

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In 2013 Cambridge City Council, for the 150th anniversary of the and badge for Cambridge Football Association Rules that followed in 1863, agreed to Rules 1848 might look like, undertake a public art commission to celebrate the ‘Cambridge developing storytelling around Rules’ and acknowledge the important role that Parker’s Piece football and families. Some played in the birth of football not just in Cambridge, but nationally of these ideas were uploaded Scan the qr code to watch the stone and internationally. to the Cambridge Rules 1848 being split at the website. quarry The council were delighted to award the commission to the artists 2 In 1848 a group of students Alan Ward and Neville Gabie for their vision of a large stone cut And during Cambridge’s 3 from Cambridge University into nine parts, with each segment engraved with the Cambridge popular Big Weekend, a wrote a set of 11 rules for Rules in different languages. The four pieces you see today would temporary installation was a game of football. Nailed remain as a permanent marker on Parker’s Piece, the others set up on the site of the to the trees surrounding travelling to five football-loving countries in a cultural exchange, sculpture, explaining the Parker’s Piece, this was the highlighting the global significance of the first rules and ‘twinning’ project and documenting first time that football as we Cambridge with the football world. visitors’ stories for the website. know it had any formalised It was a fantastic few days and Unsurprisingly, the commission attracted huge interest, with laws, and from this small wonderful to see such support Brazilian television travelling to project supporters The National patch of land in Cambridge a for the project. game which would spread to Football Museum to interview Alan and Neville about the first encompass every corner of rules. Indeed, one of the great pleasures of the commission Come the new football season the world was born. has been the wonderfully eclectic range of people interested in in 2017, Cambridge United their project – Alan probably never expected he would appear on featured the Cambridge Celebrity Antiques Road Trip with singer and vocal coach David Rules 1848 project in the Grant, but there he was, explaining the rules and the importance official matchday programme of Parker’s Piece on primetime BBC Television. for their game with Forest Green Rovers. The host at the While the designs for the sculptural piece were being developed game was the much-missed after consultation, in February 2016 www.cambridgerules1848.com Cyrille Regis – his terribly sad was launched as a key second element of Alan and Neville’s passing just months later and project – a global archive of what football means to the masses, the outpouring of emotion where football fans from across the world could contribute stories and tributes it provoked of their favourite teams, shirts, pitches, stadiums and much more. A few months later Cambridge only confirmed to us how It would go on to feature everything from Shanghai Greenland Rules 1848 teamed up much football is a game Shenhua supporters at the Chinese FA Cup Final to Cambridge- with Street Child United, a of community, stories and based Galatasaray fans and quickly attracted hits and stories from Cambridge-based charity legends. around the world. which uses the power of sport In February 2018 the stone Later that year, the Cambridge Rules 1848 podcast was first to change the way the world arrived in Halifax for the broadcast too, with Alan and Neville explaining the ideas behind sees and treats street children careful process of the etching. the project. Later episodes would see the team visit non league (see page 5). To celebrate and The Liverpool-supporting side West Didsbury & Chorlton and speak to Quinton Fortune support their vital work, the Jason Fry of the company who 4.

elena montero, belarmino fonseca: lamecense ltd granitos Mpira utakuwa about his work with a ladies football team in a Brazilian favela. project agreed to place four took on the project (Scribble of the stones in places where Stone) couldn’t fail to remind nje ya uwanja But it was during the last weeks of 2016 when the sculptural piece Street Child United has links, everyone that his team were suddenly became much more real. Planning permission was iwapo utapita including Brazil, Egypt, India doing pretty well in the confirmed, which meant Alan and Neville could share the design laini za milingoti and Kenya. Champions League. publicly for the first time, to huge intrigue and excitement in local, ya bendera kwa Of course, it’s just as regional and national media. Once Scribble Stone had pande zote mbili important that the Cambridge finished their painstaking work, All of which meant the work on the project could really continue Rules 1848 commission the stones made their final za uwanja, ambapo apace, and in January 2017 Alan and Neville visited a Portuguese has a deep connection with journeys to be installed on quarry to watch the granite for the sculpture being extracted and mpira utarushwa Cambridge, so everyone Parker’s Piece in Cambridge split into nine parts. All the quarry workers were, of course, huge moja kwa moja connected with the project and locations around the football fans. Back at the Granitos office, Elena and Belarmino uwanjani. found it really rewarding to world. But that isn’t the final read the original Cambridge Rules and translated them into spend two days in July 2017 whistle on the project. Just like Spanish and Portuguese. with Cambridge United at football itself, there is always Parkside Community College in another game, another story. Cambridge, hosting classroom Cambridge Rules 1848 will based activities around the live on in a forthcoming book, first rules. The language, style the website, and the stones and time they were written was – which are a permanent examined, as well as how the reminder of not just why this rules might be interpreted in wonderful game means so other languages. Culture and much to so many people, but heritage was explored through the exact place it came from design, and the students exactly 170 years ago. imagined what a football strip matt broadbent: scribblestone broadbent: matt Teamwork with Street Child United Right now, millions of street children are surviving across the world. These children and young people are often stigmatised, and as a result mistreated and marginalised by society. They are routinely denied their basic human rights. Their voices are rarely heard. Street Child United uses sport to change this, providing a global platform uniting former street children from 4 global partners: across the world. 5 Street Child United, Cambridge The partnership between Street Child United and Cambridge in conjunction with Glad’s Rules 1848 has meant that most of the pieces of the sculpture House, Mombasa, Kenya; travelling to different locations around the world will be located Nafas sports, Cairo, Egypt; in places where Street Child United have formed valuable Karunalaya Center, Chennai, relationships through the Street Child World Cup. India; NewStart, Rio, Brazil. John Wroe, founder and CEO of Cambridge-based charity Street Shanghai Greenland Shenhua Child United, immediately felt that there was a natural link Football Club will host the between their work and the ethos of the Cambridge Rules project. Chinese stone at their training complex in Shanghai, China, “Living in Cambridge for the past 30 years and knowing the history where the players of tomorrow of Parker’s Piece, it’s fantastic that this sculpture will connect are being nurtured. Cambridge and places such as a favela in Rio – where we have our Safe Space football pitch – for ever,” he said. “That fills me with a huge amount of pride, and it’s great that an art project originally commissioned for Parker’s Piece will tell such an important story of football’s power for good across the world.” We’re thrilled that one piece of stone will be at the favela football pitch in Brazil that John Wroe talks about above; in Kenya, the stone will be at a new Community Stadium used by the Glad’s Scan the qr code to House charity’s sports programme and in Cairo, the Nafas watch a small project’s pitch helping children at risk are delighted to be hosting interview with Rodolfo of Boavista a stone. The last stone will go to the Karunalaya Center for Street & Working Children, which uses football to improve the lives of street children in Chennai – we’re pleased to be associated with all of these incredible organisations and thank Street Child United for introducing us to their fantastic work. We hope that having a Cambridge Rules 1848 stone will in some way help raise the profile of the people they aim to help through football.

The Street Child World Cup: The Future Depends On You Moscow 2018 is at this very moment creating a global platform for 200+ street-connected young people from 20 countries, so their voices are heard and the world changes the way children living and working on the streets are seen and treated. www.streetchildunited.org website submissions 30°01’24.7”n 31°08’40.0”n 31°15’47.5”e 121°33’40.3”e www.cambridgerules1848.com be part of the archive

Location: Shanghai Shenhua Traning Complex, Shanghai, China

Given that the earliest recorded form of a game where a ball had to be kicked wbrpphoto 6 / into a net is not in England 7 at all, but 3rd Century BC oliveira China, it’s apt that one of the stones is going to Shanghai.

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© Football Club in its various historical guises is one of Location: Complexo da Penha, the oldest professional clubs Rio de Janerio, Brazil in China, attracting the likes of Howard Wilkinson, Jean When a Scottish railway Tigana, Nicolas Anelka, Sergio engineer living in Brazil Batista and Gus Poyet to coach packed his son off to school one of the Chinese Super in England in 1884, little did League’s biggest sides. The he know Charles Miller would stone will be at the Shanghai return with two footballs, a

Greenland Shenhua training set of rules, and become the complex, which is at the centre

father of the sport in this most miller of their impressive program iconic of footballing countries. developing a new generation Football is enmeshed in every charles of Chinese players. “As the part of Brazilian society, and chairman of the Shanghai in the Caracol community in Greenland Shenhua Football Complexo da Penha, Street Club, I am very honoured to Child United’s Safe Space have the Cambridge Rules Programme runs a five-a- stone at our club,” said Mr side football pitch for favela Wu. “We believe that through children to play, develop and our constant efforts and active learn life skills. The stone will progress, we want to let every act as a bench from which to Shanghai fan feel the infinite sit and watch some incredible charm of football and enjoy a Scan the qr code to watch the rules football talent – as well as being read in German better life.” a place to contemplate the www.shenhuafc.com.cn amazing view across Rio. Find out more about the Safe Scan the qr codes to see Space Programme in Rio on the rules read by the Shanghai Greenland Shenhua youth the Cambridge Rules 1848 team at their training ground podcast.

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Cambridge United XI Cambridge University Cambridgeshire FA Cambridge University Association Football Club Select XI Association Football Club

12.45pm squad squad squad squad Two special 11-a-side exhibition Emma Place Laura Bleehen Barney Cook George Boughton matches will be played to Liz Pamplin Natalie Faktor Steve Kirkup Jack Congdon captain celebrate the unveiling of 8 the sculpture, organised in Vicky Hoover Connie Büttner Phill Benton Angus Buttar 9 association with Cambridge Ruth Fox Fiona Conlon Matt Lee Alex Bull United Football Club and Kayla Dortch captain Gerda Bachrati James Godden Nick Gallagher Community Trust, featuring women’s teams from Ellen Green Arden Dierker Viik Mark Webster Oliver Lerway Cambridge United and the Beth Morrell Zoe Cohen Dan Heron Joe Ellis University of Cambridge and Teonie Peyton Temi Adeyemi Sam Coe captain George Herring a men’s match between a Cambridgeshire FA Select Kirsten Burt Katy Edwards captain Jose Patricio Max Burley Anna Smith XI and the University of Mollie Coupar Isabel Luetkenherm Babacar Camara Rufus Saunders Executive Councillor Cambridge. for Streets and Open Spaces Fran Gough Daisy Luff Zach Knight Percival Henry Alexander ...... Liz Ashcroft Nacer Rerizani Louis D’Costa “I’m delighted that we are ...... Jen Atherton Bradley Erskine ...... celebrating this historic ...... Henny Horsler Tom Gray ...... anniversary with a piece of art on Parker’s Piece, which ...... Will Conlon ...... has such as close connection ...... with the Cambridge Rules...... Manager: Luke McAvoy It’s also very fitting that the art work represents the Assistant: Mac MacDonald international significance of this anniversary and the status of Cambridge as a proudly multicultural and international city. This project has been the result of extensive public consultation, and I’d like to thank fellow councillors (past and present) Match Officials who have played a part in helping to shape this project.” Referee: Chris Abbott Anna Smith, Executive Assistants: Willem Perry and Councillor for Streets and Open Spaces Stacey Fullicks

12 noon Speeches and official unveiling of the Cambridge Rules 1848 sculpture.

The event will include a temporary installation of large scale-global football images from the cambridgerules1848.com website and project. image courtesy of ccc / cambridgeshire collection

Scan the qr code to listen to how a Street Child United ambassador from Brazil inspired a Parkside Community College student 22°50’36.3”s 13°07’46.3”n website submissions 43°17’24.8”w 80°17’23.2”e www.cambridgerules1848.com be part of the archive

Location: Karunalaya Social Centre, Chennai, India

When football began to thrive

in India in the 20th century, . North Chennai – the old part of the city with its fishing harbour and labourers – 10 : became a hotbed for star 11 . players who would turn out for well-known factory and company teams. In that area today, the Karunalaya organisation use football to help rehabilitate and . protect street children. Their girls team will play in the Street Child World Cup in Moscow this summer and have already become . local heroes, just like both the famous Chennai players Location: Al Abageyah Youth of the past and the current . Centre, Under Al Abageyah champions of the Indian Super League, Chennaiyin FC Bridge, Cairo, Egypt (managed by former Aston

Villa boss John Gregory). One of the joys of football is Scan the qr code to watch Alan and that it can be played anywhere The stone will be placed where Neville discuss the original rules . of football on Brazilian television – from a patch of ground in the girls practise their skills, programme Esporte Espectacular the middle of a Cambridge a playground in the heart of Scan the qr code to listen to the park to an unused space the city at Karunalaya’s Center Al Ahli Sports Club fans sing, it’s . under a motorway in Cairo. For Street & Working Children. considered to be one of the most beautiful songs in Libyan sport The Nafas project, which Founder Director Paul Sunder

aims to use sport to empower Singh says it will “remain a children at risk in the Egyptian monument for football lovers” . capital, set up their pitch in – as well as a reminder of the Al Abageya district to be a football’s power for good. . safe haven, and runs a number of leagues for boys and girls. Scan the qr code to

The beautiful street art on the listen to the rules being read in Tamil concrete structures underneath the motorway confirm that this isn’t just a football pitch, however, it’s a home and focal . point for an entire community brought together by the game . – the perfect place for one of the Cambridge Rules stones.

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Carol Ann Wood Derek W Paul Rosenbloom Neville Gabie Geezer Love My Most Memorable Goal. In 1964, Man United drew likes of Woolwich Arsenal and Cyrille Regis twice with Sunderland in the Ipswich Town. Opponents 26th September 2017 I’ve been an ardent Chelsea It was a goal I never saw! FA Cup Sixth Round, 3-3 at Old now are more likely Old Boys supporter since 1970, and I’m February 28th 1959 and my One of the very few perks in Trafford and 2-2 in the replay or Bank sides, plus locals a massive fan of David Luiz. team, Norwich – then in the being a Forest Green Season at Roker Park. The second such as Winchmore Hill. As When he returned to Chelsea Third Division – were playing ticket holder in a season which replay was scheduled for one of the largest amateur last summer, I was delighted. at Sheffield United for a place has been disappointingly poor, 12 Monday night, March 9th at clubs in the country the 13 I wanted to show my love for in the semi final of the FA was being invited as a VIP Leeds Road, then Huddersfield Vamps run seven teams plus him, but I’d already bought Cup. At 18 I played for my guest of Cambridge United Town’s ground. I was 14. How a Veterans team. Stories from my replica shirt with another village team on Saturdays to see the two teams meet could my mates and I get to that time are hampered by player’s name on, and couldn’t and we were away, playing at last September. On the night the match? Our final lesson the inevitable post-match splash out on a second. So my Caister near Gt Yarmouth. I FGR were woeful, perhaps a was double-period French, so alcoholic haze, but I do husband, not a football fan, suffered a head injury, slight new low, [although there have we explained to the teacher remember the famous annual made me a banner to wave concussion and a big gash been many others since] and that the school basketball team Easter tour to Antwerp (now at matches, saying simply over my eye. No medics in comfortably beaten, but that Location: had an away match and we’d in its 50th year!) hosted by Amy Gledhill ‘Geezer. CFC.’ Geezer is attendance those days so I only tells half the story. The Bomu Stadium have to leave after the first KFC Rood-Wit, where we beat David’s nickname which dates was bundled into a car and When I was in primary school Mombasa, Kenya period. We were ushered out a German team 1-0 in the final As a VIP guest we were invited back to his first spell with the taken to Gt Yarmouth hospital I loved being ‘one of the at the appointed time, but, in 1980 (no penalties). to a sit-down dinner before the When Victor Wanyama club. David saw my banner to be stitched up. There was boys’ and started kicking just as we got to the door, match and to my very great came on for Spurs against and acknowledged it, and after no waiting in those days and the ball around with them at one of our ‘friends’ shouted surprise and joy I was sitting Juventus in the Champions one game, he strode over to I was taken straight into an lunchtime. I couldn’t join the “Get us a programme, Rosie!” next to Cyrille Regis. Everything League this season, it me and gave me his match operating room and lay on boys team to play against other We belted down the corridor that has been said about him was the latest entry in the shirt. It made me so happy. the couch. The radio was schools so we set up one for and made it to the match, since his sad death I found to fascinating story of Kenyan on, the Norwich game was the girls and I played defence. David always says hello and which United won 5-1, Denis be absolutely true. We talked at football which began when the commentary and we I remember that first match waves whenever he sees me ‘The King’ Law, scoring a length about racism in football British settlers introduced were losing 1 – 0 with our and how much I cried – when I and my banner. He calls me hat-trick. Unfortunately United in the eighties, we talked about the game in the early 20th goalkeeper playing on with a got home and was out of sight his ‘Geezer Carol.’ I’ve also then lost to West Ham in the his coaching tour of South century. In Mombasa, the dislocated shoulder. As they of the other girls – because the Cambridge Rules stone will met David’s mum, girlfriend semi-final, but I had at least Africa during apartheid and he started to stitch my wound, only goal scored was one that be installed at a brand new and sister, who are very lovely seen them win the Cup at told me of his work as a scout. Norwich, against the odds, bounced accidentally off my community stadium built people. I have a number of Wembley the previous year, 3-1 Regardless that we had never equalised. I reacted and foot into our net. It was right in the Bomu district to host skirts and a dress with David’s against Leicester. met before, he could not have tried to sit up at which point near the end and we lost. local and professional games: image on, and he and the been friendlier. I was forcibly pushed back At the school, Burnage I now live near Leicester City Kenya’s street children soccer family all think it’s great. David down and told to keep still. Grammar, I occasionally sat What I was able to tell him was centre and can hear fans team were there recently to Luiz is the nicest footballer It was a goal that kept their at a desk with the name ‘R. that I was one of the eighty plus cheering and singing on “Nothing good has ever prepare for the Street Child I’ve ever met: compassionate, fantastic cup run going. On Byrne’ carefully inscribed into thousand who saw him play match days from the King happened in my life. People United World Cup. A team funny, friendly, and very the Sunday morning early, the surface. This was of course and score at Wembley in the Power Stadium (I still call always associated me with bad selected from the Glad’s humble. House orphanage, they aim with a headache and bandage Roger Byrne, Man United 1987 FA Cup Final. Coventry it Walkers). It’s nice to see things. They never wanted me to challenge the negative over the eye, I was queuing captain and England left-back, City beat Spurs 3-2 in extra time people walking to the stadium to even walk with their children. perceptions and treatment of for a replay ticket for a match who died in the Munich air in a wonderful match and I was in their coloured shirts all I wonder what they will say street children. I would not have seen but crash. I decided to emulate only there by chance. supporting the team they now that I have been chosen to for that equaliser, which I his carving over a double love. My colleague never lets play for my country. They will I was a student in London at remember every time I see period of German, but during me miss an update on what’s hear that I have a passport and Sam Hallas the time and on the day of the that scar in the mirror. the next class, the teacher happening with Leicester City, am flying out of the country. Otzias, Greece Cup Final I thought I would whose form-room we had I think I now know more about Football has really changed my go to the ground in the hope just vacated came storming The pitch was made up Jamie Vardy than I do about life. People will now see and of getting a cheap ticket from in, demanding to know who of barley, wild oats and my colleague! talk differently about me”. a tout. As it happened I met had vandalised one of ‘his’ chamomile, all about Eliud Mwaura a Coventry City fan waiting desks. As there was only one knee high. Team Kenya Goalkeeper outside the ground to meet his other pupil in our class with friend. When at a few minutes the initials ‘PR’ there was little before 3 pm, his friend had point trying to bluff this one still not arrived and anxious out, so I was sent to the Head. not to miss anything, he sold One hand on top of the other, me the friend’s ticket at face strap on each hand, matter price and we went in together closed. Those were the days… to see the game in a stalwart My own football career City enclosure. I could not ended with Crouch End have picked a better end of the Vampires. The Vamps play ground that afternoon. in the Southern Amateur League, and were formed originally as Balmoral FC in 1883, turning out against the website and book

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The book With thanks to our project commissioners and partners. The four pieces of etched It’s not too late to share Kevin Hives, Julie Tyler: BBS Granite Concepts granite on Parker’s Piece won’t your stories, self portraits Elena Montero, Belarmino Fonseca: be the only permanent marker or photographs about the Granitos Lamecense Ltd of the Cambridge Rules 1848 beautiful game wherever it project. As we’ve already is played at Jason Fry, Scott Williams, Matt Broadbent: Scribble Stone – etching

explained, the five other stones www.cambridgerules1848.com. Andrew Urquhart: Hibbitt & Sons Ltd – installation gabie neville 14 travel to meaningful football 15 We are still accepting George Voyais: Ashtonce Engineering locations in Brazil, Kenya, submissions to the Cambridge India, China and Egypt in a John Wroe, Bruno Ramos, Sam Winter: Street Child United Rules 1848.com website, too. cultural exchange. The project It’s easy to upload your entry Adam Reid: Newstart, Brazil will follow and document these to the world’s widest football Fedrick ‘Bokey’ Achola: Glad’s House, Kenya journeys –- and the lives of the fan network and people are people in the five countries – Paul Sunder Singh: Karunalaya, India still doing so in amazing

in a book to be published in scribblestone fry, jason bbs granite concepts hives, kevin numbers. Perhaps choose your Karim Hosny: Nafassports, Egypt Autumn 2018. favourite football shirt and Taotao Song, Mr Wu, Stephen Still, Elaine Chen: The book will also tell the full take a picture of yourself in Shanghai Greenland Shenhua FC Company LTD story of the project, from the it. Think about which football Ceri Littlechild, Nadine Black, Sarah Tovell, Bana Elzein, first rules pinned to a tree in pitch means the most to you – Dugald Peebles: Cambridge City Council Cambridge to the event you’re whether it be a huge stadium,

part of today – and beyond. a local park or a street. Ben Szreter, Sam Gomarsall: alan ward Taking the form of a miniature Everyone has a unique football Cambridge United Football Club and Community Trust scale facsimile of the stone story, so why not tell yours? Ben East – words, pr and podcasts block, every single submission Or you can just tweet a pic in Sebastian Ward – video, audio and podcasts to the cambridgerules1848.com your favourite football shirt or website will be reproduced in Leanda Ryan – Cambridge Rules 1848 website at your favourite ground to the 800-page book, making it @parkers1848 and we’ll do the Pat Flynn – computer modelling the world’s biggest archive of rest…

what football means to people across the globe. It will be a From the outset our ambition for this commission was to place where football fans of celebrate the worldwide pleasure shared by millions, for this very whatever nationality can tell their simple, mostly beautiful game. stories of the beautiful game. Andrew Urquhart Hibbitt Masonry Install Dreamteam Cambridge is a world renowned, truly international city, which Parker’s Piece also gave us the first written rules for football in the modern era, so what better place to deliver a project which aims to strengthen those global links through the sport loved by so many. In delivering this project we have met and are lucky to be working john wroe, street child united john wroe, with some amazing people who not only enjoy football, but see

its potential in helping rebuild lives and give hope, sometimes in difficult circumstances. We met fans in countries where football is just emerging onto the world stage and others where it is the very fabric of life. We would like to think this project will provide a window into the varied landscapes, places, people and cultures very different to our own, but who all share one common language – the laws and rules for the game of football. To all, we would like to express our thanks and gratitude for all you have contributed in making this project come to life. ceri littlechild, cambridge city council ceri littlechild,

ben szreter, cambridge united fc and community trust

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the cambridge rules sculpture and website has been funded by cambridge city council using s106 funding from developers for public art projects global partners: street child united, cambridge and shanghai greenland shenhua football club