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 Saltcoats Gordons,
Paddocks to Pitches: The Definitive History of Western Australian Football profiles James 'Jimmy' Crichton Currie Gordon as born in Saltcoats on 22 Feb 1894, adding, to quote, "he and younger brother Andy, became one of, if not the, deadliest pre-WWII striking combinations in the State".
And Jimmy and Andy were indeed, born in Saltcoats, Andy in 1896, the sons of a tailor from Moffat and a local mother with not just the boys, their elder sister and brother, Jock, but their parents sailing for Western Australia in 1912 and settling across the Swan River from Perth itself. By then Jimmy was eighteen, first joining Rangers Glebe then with both his brothers the following year on its formation Northern Casuals. And it was there he began to create a reputation as a goal-scorer, this despite the fact that he stood just five feet two inches tall.
That is until 1915 when he enlisted, was sent in 1916 to France to be mentioned in despatches, only returning in 1919 to pick up this time with Perth City United. However, it is difficult to know how much and where he played after that. Having broken his leg in a collision with friend and goalkeeper,
Alex Marr, he seems increasingly to have concentrated on other sports, bowls and cricket. Meanwhile, he worked as a confectioner, turned his attention to the junior game and became vice-president of the Western Australia junior FA. He does not seem to have married, as Andy did in 1924. And, living in Riverdale, his death at the age of seventy-one is recorded in 1966 to be cremated at Karrakatta, where his younger brother would, from Bayswater, aged seventy-three, be buried in 1970.
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