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in 1872, Wood began to play football in North London. In
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on 23 December 1900, but the organizers of the tournament somehow forgot to appoint a referee; fortunately, Wood, a Club Français player who was already used to refereeing by then, offered himself up to the task, and so the final began an hour later, ending in a 1–0 victory in favor of his team.
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