<p><strong>Enjoy our third live talk webinar accompanying our digital exhibition “Origins: Pre-Histories of Football”. Don’t forget to sign up for the last webinar of the series on Meso-American ball games.</strong></p> <p></p> <h2>Live talk webinar: <strong>Greco-Roman ball games</strong></h2> <p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Greece and Rome broke new ground in organised sport, giving the world the Olympic Games and gladiatorial contests. Join us and our experts for a free one-hour webinar to find out why ball games, even though being part of everyday life, were somewhat relegated to the margins in these heroic times. </span></p> <p><span class="style-scope yt-formatted-string" dir="auto">Watch experts Prof. Nigel B. Crowther (Western University, Ontario Canada) and Prof. Tony Collins (DeMonfort University, Leicester UK) talk about the role ball games played in ancient Greco-Roman times and why it is impossible to establish a link to association football.</span></p>

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