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New book just out: Fifty Scottish Footballers by Alistair Firth and Martin Donnelly. Fascinating project to celebrate the memorials to Scotland caps. £10 from www.lulu.com/shop/alistai...
December 15, 2025 at 10:21 AM
New book just out: Fifty Scottish Footballers by Alistair Firth and Martin Donnelly. Fascinating project to celebrate the memorials to Scotland caps. £10 from www.lulu.com/shop/alistai...
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3 of 4 Hmm, a ’sudden transference’ you say, Steve? Was he aware of the truth here? Two teams who started out with Dodoball and then became Scottish teams who happened to play in England? The #scotchprofessor saving both from insignificance.
October 21, 2025 at 5:15 AM
3 of 4 Hmm, a ’sudden transference’ you say, Steve? Was he aware of the truth here? Two teams who started out with Dodoball and then became Scottish teams who happened to play in England? The #scotchprofessor saving both from insignificance.
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4 of 5 Yes - I am a wee scamp. I still await any facts for the constant assertion in Dodoball books that Rugby was the more popular game in Scotland. If so, why did John Hope specifically, ban ‘lifting’ - picking up the ball. Was he then an outlier? If so, make your case. Thoughts and prayers.
August 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
4 of 5 Yes - I am a wee scamp. I still await any facts for the constant assertion in Dodoball books that Rugby was the more popular game in Scotland. If so, why did John Hope specifically, ban ‘lifting’ - picking up the ball. Was he then an outlier? If so, make your case. Thoughts and prayers.
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Remembering former CFC player Jock Cameron who passed away OTD in 1950.
Jock is buried in Blackburn Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
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Jock is buried in Blackburn Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
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July 5, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Remembering former CFC player Jock Cameron who passed away OTD in 1950.
Jock is buried in Blackburn Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
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Jock is buried in Blackburn Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
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Remembering former CFC player Alec Cheyne who passed away OTD in 1983.
Alec was cremated at Dundee Crematorium and his ashes scattered in the woodland area of the gardens.
There is no known memorial.
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Alec was cremated at Dundee Crematorium and his ashes scattered in the woodland area of the gardens.
There is no known memorial.
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July 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Remembering former CFC player Alec Cheyne who passed away OTD in 1983.
Alec was cremated at Dundee Crematorium and his ashes scattered in the woodland area of the gardens.
There is no known memorial.
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Alec was cremated at Dundee Crematorium and his ashes scattered in the woodland area of the gardens.
There is no known memorial.
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4 of 4 So what? In 1878, 2 Welsh clubs are still playing the Sheffield Code. The Scottish Association had their own set of rules for 2 handed throw-ins and 2 man offsides. These are today’s world rules. Scotland was the First Nation to have national rules. Tell me again how the English FA...
July 5, 2025 at 9:02 AM
4 of 4 So what? In 1878, 2 Welsh clubs are still playing the Sheffield Code. The Scottish Association had their own set of rules for 2 handed throw-ins and 2 man offsides. These are today’s world rules. Scotland was the First Nation to have national rules. Tell me again how the English FA...
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1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball The history of football in England is 2 parts myth to 10 parts lie. Step forward NL ‘Pa’ Jackson, the founder of the Corinthian Club. After having watched the 1882 #scotchprofessor phalanx tear England to pieces at Hampden, he makes a crucial decision: to copy Scotland.
May 18, 2025 at 8:01 AM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball The history of football in England is 2 parts myth to 10 parts lie. Step forward NL ‘Pa’ Jackson, the founder of the Corinthian Club. After having watched the 1882 #scotchprofessor phalanx tear England to pieces at Hampden, he makes a crucial decision: to copy Scotland.
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4 of 4 So what? Can we infer from England having their dribbling mentioned that Scotland did not have this as the crucial part of their play? The Morning Post piece is a list of things that happened. Runs noted by English men but Scotland attacking referred to as a group. SCOTTISH Combination.
May 19, 2025 at 10:55 AM
4 of 4 So what? Can we infer from England having their dribbling mentioned that Scotland did not have this as the crucial part of their play? The Morning Post piece is a list of things that happened. Runs noted by English men but Scotland attacking referred to as a group. SCOTTISH Combination.
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5 of 5 So What? I realise the dilemma. If you start accepting these issues, the entire web of English history unravels and disappears. This is why I expect to be long dead before the primacy of Scotland has been accepted. We’re probably twenty years away from a proper discussion even beginning.
May 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
5 of 5 So What? I realise the dilemma. If you start accepting these issues, the entire web of English history unravels and disappears. This is why I expect to be long dead before the primacy of Scotland has been accepted. We’re probably twenty years away from a proper discussion even beginning.
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1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball Anwoth is a part of the overarching theory of Football History that I have been honing, over the last 35 years. It started the day I saw Andrew Watson in a team photo and realised that, if my facts about the first black Footballer were wrong, what else was incorrect?
May 3, 2025 at 7:29 AM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball Anwoth is a part of the overarching theory of Football History that I have been honing, over the last 35 years. It started the day I saw Andrew Watson in a team photo and realised that, if my facts about the first black Footballer were wrong, what else was incorrect?
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5 of 5 So What? Scotland is a nation. Sheffield isn’t. Scotland had the first actual national Association. England got one in 1877 when the posh southerners killed off Sheffield. There, the Sheffield story ends. The SFA continued with 1886 and the IFAB. And it all goes back to places like Anwoth.
May 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
5 of 5 So What? Scotland is a nation. Sheffield isn’t. Scotland had the first actual national Association. England got one in 1877 when the posh southerners killed off Sheffield. There, the Sheffield story ends. The SFA continued with 1886 and the IFAB. And it all goes back to places like Anwoth.
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#Onthisday 8Mar1921, the 1st black international footballer, Andrew Watson, died.
Grave pics before and after restoration, funded entirely by fans with no help from football authorities or history groups. Still maintained, at cost, by fans
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Grave pics before and after restoration, funded entirely by fans with no help from football authorities or history groups. Still maintained, at cost, by fans
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March 8, 2025 at 7:30 AM
#Onthisday 8Mar1921, the 1st black international footballer, Andrew Watson, died.
Grave pics before and after restoration, funded entirely by fans with no help from football authorities or history groups. Still maintained, at cost, by fans
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Grave pics before and after restoration, funded entirely by fans with no help from football authorities or history groups. Still maintained, at cost, by fans
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@gedboy58.bsky.social
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5 of 5 So what? ⅔ of Watson’s games were in Scotland, but the most influential were in England. Why? Because, without them, he would not have become the towering influence in the development of the world game. No Watson, no Corinthian passing and running. Tell me again, how...
March 8, 2025 at 12:50 PM
5 of 5 So what? ⅔ of Watson’s games were in Scotland, but the most influential were in England. Why? Because, without them, he would not have become the towering influence in the development of the world game. No Watson, no Corinthian passing and running. Tell me again, how...
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4 of 5 If you don’t get this then - like me pre-1990 - you get nothing. After the 1882 5-1 humbling at the First Hampden, the English Establishment was broken. They could no longer kid themselves that they played Football. Pa Jackson founded Corinthian to learn how to play Scottish Combination.
March 8, 2025 at 12:49 PM
4 of 5 If you don’t get this then - like me pre-1990 - you get nothing. After the 1882 5-1 humbling at the First Hampden, the English Establishment was broken. They could no longer kid themselves that they played Football. Pa Jackson founded Corinthian to learn how to play Scottish Combination.
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1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball OTD 1921 #scotchprofessor Andrew Watson dies. Laid to rest in Richmond Cemetery, West London. If I have one aim in life, it is to place this great man at the the forefront of those players and coaches who created the world’s most popular sport and cultural phenomenon.
March 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball OTD 1921 #scotchprofessor Andrew Watson dies. Laid to rest in Richmond Cemetery, West London. If I have one aim in life, it is to place this great man at the the forefront of those players and coaches who created the world’s most popular sport and cultural phenomenon.
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150 years ago today, 6 March 1875: England 2 Scotland 2 at Kennington Oval, commemorated in this wonderful engraving. Drawn by Alfred Concanen, engraved by HJ Crane, It was printed the following week in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. This one has been colourised.
March 6, 2025 at 10:08 AM
150 years ago today, 6 March 1875: England 2 Scotland 2 at Kennington Oval, commemorated in this wonderful engraving. Drawn by Alfred Concanen, engraved by HJ Crane, It was printed the following week in the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News. This one has been colourised.
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1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball OTD 1874 Hamilton Crescent Scotland 2 England 1 1st ever win for Scotland. 3rd ever international. 8,000 fans. Why the West of Scotland Cricket Ground? The First Hampden was rudimentary. Open a few months. A tiny store for equipment. It was a field and a small shed.
March 7, 2025 at 6:13 PM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball OTD 1874 Hamilton Crescent Scotland 2 England 1 1st ever win for Scotland. 3rd ever international. 8,000 fans. Why the West of Scotland Cricket Ground? The First Hampden was rudimentary. Open a few months. A tiny store for equipment. It was a field and a small shed.
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March 7, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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Don’t forget to restock or update your wardrobe, with our online shop ready to accept your orders and would be shipped next week, in time for going to Greece!
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Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
March 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Ernest Hemingway wrote this in 1935…
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Born #OTD 16 February 1847. Arthur Kinnaird, football's first superstar: nine FA Cup finals (five wins), a Scotland cap, FA President for 33 years. "He did more to popularise soccer than any man who ever lived" See www.scottishsporthistory.com/arthur-kinna...
February 16, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Born #OTD 16 February 1847. Arthur Kinnaird, football's first superstar: nine FA Cup finals (five wins), a Scotland cap, FA President for 33 years. "He did more to popularise soccer than any man who ever lived" See www.scottishsporthistory.com/arthur-kinna...
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Another old Southside 🧵.
This bit of verse in the Kirk Lane Burial Ground in Pollokshaws marks a nearly ordinary life.
Betty Thomson died in 1871, aged 82 or 83. She and her husband had both worked in the local textile industry: he as a hand-loom weaver, she as a "needle flowerer" (embroiderer).
This bit of verse in the Kirk Lane Burial Ground in Pollokshaws marks a nearly ordinary life.
Betty Thomson died in 1871, aged 82 or 83. She and her husband had both worked in the local textile industry: he as a hand-loom weaver, she as a "needle flowerer" (embroiderer).
January 25, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Another old Southside 🧵.
This bit of verse in the Kirk Lane Burial Ground in Pollokshaws marks a nearly ordinary life.
Betty Thomson died in 1871, aged 82 or 83. She and her husband had both worked in the local textile industry: he as a hand-loom weaver, she as a "needle flowerer" (embroiderer).
This bit of verse in the Kirk Lane Burial Ground in Pollokshaws marks a nearly ordinary life.
Betty Thomson died in 1871, aged 82 or 83. She and her husband had both worked in the local textile industry: he as a hand-loom weaver, she as a "needle flowerer" (embroiderer).
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The newly exposed ghost sign above the Brooklyn Cafe on Minard Road.
(NB: I'm aware there is a stushie going on about the Brooklyn opening during the storm. I don't know the full facts so I'm not commenting; this is purely historical.)
(NB: I'm aware there is a stushie going on about the Brooklyn opening during the storm. I don't know the full facts so I'm not commenting; this is purely historical.)
January 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
The newly exposed ghost sign above the Brooklyn Cafe on Minard Road.
(NB: I'm aware there is a stushie going on about the Brooklyn opening during the storm. I don't know the full facts so I'm not commenting; this is purely historical.)
(NB: I'm aware there is a stushie going on about the Brooklyn opening during the storm. I don't know the full facts so I'm not commenting; this is purely historical.)
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They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty.
They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment.
That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT.
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They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment.
That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT.
👁️❤️🐶🐕
January 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty.
They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment.
That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT.
👁️❤️🐶🐕
They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment.
That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT.
👁️❤️🐶🐕
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1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 6th December 1872 has a report on the world’s first international. Interesting, due to the slight but crucial reporting variations from what we know. There might have been a fair amount of copy from which to choose.
December 6, 2024 at 3:46 AM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 6th December 1872 has a report on the world’s first international. Interesting, due to the slight but crucial reporting variations from what we know. There might have been a fair amount of copy from which to choose.