Generally speaking, the narrower Lineker makes his body, the more excited about football he currently is: all pleading hands and tensed shoulders, lurching forward in his seat to keep the half-time conversation moving. In one version the idea was to keep the ball in the air as long as possible, cool football kits but there were also competitive team games in which the idea was to get a ball into a goal. The heyday of Chinese football was in the Song Dynasty, from 960 to 1279AD. Kickball then was part of the wider urban culture of entertainment, sports, leisure and pleasure and there were different forms.