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The Big Match

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A few of the words

FLOODLIT
The Football League first permitted floodlit matches in 1956. Before that, top-level English games had to be finished in daylight, which shaped the winter fixture calendar for decades.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
OFFSIDE
The modern offside rule, requiring two defenders between attacker and goal at the moment the ball is played, dates to the 1925 revision of the Laws of the Game. Goals per match jumped almost immediately.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PENALTY
The penalty kick was introduced in 1891 after a goalkeeper deliberately handled the ball on his own goal line to deny a certain goal. The 12-yard spot has been the scene of World Cup heartbreak ever since.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
HALFTIME
The 15-minute halftime interval became standard partly so teams could swap ends and equalize any wind or slope advantage. Early matches sometimes had breaks as short as five minutes.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The big match word search puts the stadium and the kickoff on your screen. Play it online right now, no account needed.

About The Big Match

Fifty thousand people settling into their seats at once makes a sound unlike anything else. The hum before kickoff, the CHANT rising from one end of the ground, the REFEREE walking out to a chorus of whistles from the away end. Soccer has been played under permanent floodlights since the Football League allowed them in 1956, and the night match has had its own atmosphere ever since. Corner flags snapping in the wind, a STRIKER bearing down on the KEEPER, the final WHISTLE you've been waiting ninety minutes to hear.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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