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:
“Each Saturday those members of the ground-staff who were registered playing members of the Northfleet club, would meet at the Tottenham ground to board a coach for London Bridge. There we caught a train for Northfleet, or wherever we were playing in Kent, for we were members of the Kent Senior League. ... We were a young side at Northfleet, for the average age of the lads, with the exception of our skipper and centre-half, Jack Coxford, could not have been more than 19 years. Jack was the “old head” amongst that bunch of sprightly youth, and what he didn’t know about the game wasn’t worth knowing! He did his best to impart some of his knowledge and experience to us by his grand example and influence. ... The football played in the Kent Senior League was far better than anything I had encountered up to that time. It was hard and the opposition was robust, but it did us no harm, for it taught us the value of all-out effort for the whole of the ninety minutes of each game.”
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