And when you are done looking at this site for the Scots input on football world-wide, here are two more.
For those who literally want to trace on the ground the local development of Scots and Scottish football in our own and other countries there is the newly available and ever-expanding site of:
The Scots Football Historians' Group
And on Scottish sports history in general but inevitably including fitba', see Andy Mitchell's inestimable:
If you find this site helpful and use its content, remember that, whilst the research here has been done for love, I am also a founder-member of The Scots Football Historians' Group. It is involved in the discovery, physical preservation and restoration of Scots footballing heritage. That does not come free. So, if you can and and prefer, rather than to its current, specific appeal, shown above in blue, to make a contribution more
generally to SFHG funds
i.e. a donation commensurate with the value you have extracted from my work, then do not be shy. Details can found by clicking on:
Honesty Box
Football, Association Football, that is, "Soccer" to some, Fitba' tae us, was born in England but it was raised, it matured, in Scotland as one of oor ain. It was here it became the game of the working-class, ours first and then the World's. It was here too it became a national passion, now replicated globally. And it was also Scots, working Scots, who then took their football, not the English game, but our own tactically and therefore technically distinctive, indeed demonstrably superior one, wherever and however the World's roads, rails and winds carried them; to a multitude of countries, different climates, distinctive cultures and peoples, adapting, not simply cloning as it wandered its way. And in the process unknowingly but fundamentally they first created and then augmented today's universal game as they went. Their stories intrigue as they unfold. Read them here ........>>>>>>>>>
And when you are done looking at this site for the Scots input on football worldwide, here are two more.
On Scottish sports history in general but inevitably including fitba', see Andy Mitchell's inestimable:
and for those who literally want to trace on the ground the local development of Scots and Scottish football in our own and other countries there is the newly available and ever-expanding site of:
And now the Dougray Scott programme is out. It has during production changed direction, morphing from one originally sold to me, to us, about how Scots took football to the World to how Scotland was the source of modern football, with the key-word being modern. In fact coverage of our impact on the global game was reduced to segment of just shy of five minutes but it is a start. And otherwise, despite several factual errors, the overall result was far from bad, the starting-whistle officially blown, notably because it highlighted the passion that motivated our game and spotlighted its spread from Scotland, the innovative thinking that was applied almost uniquely by us to it and mistakes, not least by the SFA that caused at least the latter to cease till now for the best part of ninety years. To watch the programme click below and for a critique below that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001wdny/dougray-scott-bringing-football-home