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:
Footballing stories are to found everywhere. What was once a local game is now global. It reaches into every corner of the World to a greater or lesser extent. In some countries it is almost a religion, in others merely a passion. In a very few it has been a sporting also-ran but there too are changes. In many it arrived in the minds and feet of Britons, Britons who often are mistakenly still referred to as "English" and more often than not were Scots. Places
is the stories of where they took their fitba' passion and planted it.
Today footballers have worldwide fame. They travel the World in pursuit of payment and glory when and where it comes. They ride the wave but did not create the worldwide game. Some who did were famous in their times if not today. Most, however, did not play for money, or at least not much. Most were amateurs in the true sense of the word, lovers of the game, Scots far from their birth-places, there for many reasons but more often than not simply a better life. People
is their stories.
But football then and now is not just about where it has been and is played, nor simply by whom. It is also about how it is and was seen and envisioned technically and tactically. It is THE game of feet but is also one of the mind. From the first kick of the first international in 1872 it was Scots who were not just the main introducers, the initiators, but the thinkers, the changers, the innovators too. Today's World football is a direct product of Scots beginnings and Scots innovation. Styles
lifts the lid on where, by whom, when and how.