article_snippet: Football was under intense scrutiny anyway, with Football being wartime,' Football said.'
article_snippet: There had been so many complaints in the newspapers, in parliament, from the military, that professional football was being played while British soldiers, sailors and airmen were being killed, so the powers-that-be were anxious to see that football wasn't tarnished any further and British soldiers, sailors and airmen launched an investigation.'
article_snippet: Players could see that football was changing.
article_snippet: With the sport under such scrutiny amid wartime, it was pretty obvious that football in 1915/16 would be very different, if it happened at all.