An Edwardian Bolton Wanderers football team file onto a threadbare pitch.

The familiar rituals of modern televised football were apparently already in place over a century ago. Here, a Bolton team parade onto the pitch, not for the benefit of the crowd, but for the camera. The players are clearly aware of the lens, and are visibly directed towards a marker on the pitch, but most of them carefully ignore it, just as they would today.

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