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:
Burns Street
At the foot of a curving round to parallel to Renton's Thimble is Burns St. . James Kelly was actually born there, at No. 14, before he moved just around the corner. But he was far from the only player of real note to emerge from it. Right at the very beginning in the village's first ever team a Kennedy, possibly John, and if it was he then his home was at No. 19.
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