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:
Japan
The marble as an alternative to a cork sealing a bottle is typical of Ramune. Which leaves two questions, what is Ramune and what has that and the marble to do with football?
To the first, say "lemonade" as a Japanese might do, or a least one with little English, and you have it, rah-mon-ay. As to the beautiful game that is quite another story altogether involving said lemonade, a Scots chemist, rowing, typhoid, the British Navy, Kobe and Yokohama all in the Land of the Rising Sun. And to learn more you will just have to click the link and read on.
