This blog does not claim that Scots invented football per se or even the Association game.  The former has been played from ancient times in different forms across the World. The latter arrived with the the foundation of the Football Association, the English Football Association, in a London tavern in 1863. But what it does contend is that without Scots and Scots Diasporans World football, the modern game, would certainly not be as it is, indeed it might not exist, nor would it be where it is. And as initial background I offer one simple ratio. In 1870, seven years after the game's invention and two before it really arrived in Scotland the total population of England, Scotland and Wales was 26.07 million and that of Scotland 3.36 million, or roughly 7:1. So with currently 195 countries globally there should have been twenty-five founders, it is double that, in the perfect eleven only 1 to 2 Scots, it was often half to all, amongst the officials on the field-of-play a third and

on the typical club or football association committee of a Chairmen/President, Vice-President/Honorary President, Secretary and Treasurer half a Scot. In both cases and again seemingly disproportionately it was at least one.

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