A strange little side quest
The fun part of looking behind Shaolin Soccer is seeing how many older ideas are still alive in modern play. Association football's first unified Laws of the Game were drawn up in London in 1863. The same trail leads to another fact: Basketball became an Olympic medal sport in 1936, while women’s basketball joined the Olympic programme in 1976. The screen is modern; the urge to test skill, pattern and timing definitely is not.
