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:
The problem, however, is that almost none of the above is accurate. In fact Peter Andrews was probably born on 10th November, 1845 and baptised almost two weeks later. It means that for the 1875 game he was already in his thirtieth year. Nor was he born in Glasgow but in Kilwinning in Ayrshire. Moreover, he was not even born Peter Andrews but Peter Andrew. Furthermore, he was not the first Scottish, indeed Scotland player to move to England. That was Robert Smith, who played for Queen's Park in game up to 1869 and for the national team in the first two internationals ever in November in 1872 and March 1873. What is true is that he played for Glasgow Eastern, probably before that as early again as 1873 for Callander, despite the name also a Glasgow club, that he moved south, probably in 1876, perhaps as a result of being replaced by Ferguson and that he represented Sheffield against Manchester in December 1876. And finally it turns out that his move to Yorkshire was perhaps not as non-professional as might be thought, which would make him and not, as I previously thought, James "Reddie" Lang, the first player to have taken the English shilling. Let me explain."Peter Andrews was born in Glasgow date unknown, probably in the early 1850s. A key player in the early development of the game he is thought to be the first Scottish player to have moved to England, although he moved for business reasons rather than professionalism. A left winger, he played for Glasgow Eastern but his work took him to Leeds early in 1876 and he subsequently joined Sheffield Heeley. He represented Sheffield against Manchester in December 1876."
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