Substitution Procedure.
To replace a player with a substitute, the following conditions must be observed:
the referee must be informed before any proposed substitution is made the substitute only...
It wasn't a football association per se that first came up with the rules for football. It was actually Cambridge University that first came up with the first set of rules (in 1848), and these rules...
Here's from an article I have read: The rules of modern football (which they have introduced variations with the years) were fixed by the association of English football in 1863. The institution was...