ScotsFoundedFootball
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Football History of the Scotch Professor. Telling the story of how Scotland invented modern world football. Working to Preserve, Protect and Publicise the history of the game from a Scottish perspective and crush the myth that England invented the game.
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Tommy Malcolm also has a cracking explanation for the aftermath of the studied insult to Clegg and Sheffield in the choosing of only one northerner in the ‘England’ team. An insult which had its roots in them being footballing pioneers.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 AM
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Tommy Malcolm also has a cracking explanation for the aftermath of the studied insult to Clegg and Sheffield in the choosing of only one northerner in the ‘England’ team. An insult which had its roots in them being footballing pioneers.
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Let me trash the unofficial internationals, one more time. BTW have you got your copy of Andy Mitchell’s ‘First Elevens’? ISBN-10 1475206844 25th Feb 1871 Arnold Kirke Smith turns out for ‘Scotland’. Well done Arnie. He muttered ‘I’ll be back’ and he was. Except...
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Let me trash the unofficial internationals, one more time. BTW have you got your copy of Andy Mitchell’s ‘First Elevens’? ISBN-10 1475206844 25th Feb 1871 Arnold Kirke Smith turns out for ‘Scotland’. Well done Arnie. He muttered ‘I’ll be back’ and he was. Except...
2 of 4 432 games for Newcastle Utd 1904-22 andymitchellmedia.bsky.social has found and corrected many facts such as his Date of Birth. How do I know? This book is my guide. Buy it. Lawrence’s time at Newcastle came at the end of RS McColl’s three years there (Toffee Bob). Why is this important?
November 21, 2025 at 6:09 PM
2 of 4 432 games for Newcastle Utd 1904-22 andymitchellmedia.bsky.social has found and corrected many facts such as his Date of Birth. How do I know? This book is my guide. Buy it. Lawrence’s time at Newcastle came at the end of RS McColl’s three years there (Toffee Bob). Why is this important?
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball In case you think I am biased in favour of Scotland, let us return to ‘The Code War’ and Graham Williams’ comments on the run-up to the 1872 international. Remember, this book is about how English Football and Rugby were created. One issue was shared by both codes.
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball In case you think I am biased in favour of Scotland, let us return to ‘The Code War’ and Graham Williams’ comments on the run-up to the 1872 international. Remember, this book is about how English Football and Rugby were created. One issue was shared by both codes.
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Whence came my comments of yesterday? Via the Law of Unintended Consequences. I have a cracking book called ‘The Code War’ by Graham Williams publ. 1994 by Yore Publications (Dave Twydell) Subtitled ‘English Football Under the Historical Spotlight’.
November 7, 2025 at 6:04 AM
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Whence came my comments of yesterday? Via the Law of Unintended Consequences. I have a cracking book called ‘The Code War’ by Graham Williams publ. 1994 by Yore Publications (Dave Twydell) Subtitled ‘English Football Under the Historical Spotlight’.
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball I was reading ’Sheffield FC The World’s First Football Club’ the other day. Very interesting facts which are grist to my mill. P. 19 Sheffield Daily Telegraph ‘The club... numbers amongst its members the élite of the town and the neighbourhood’.
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball I was reading ’Sheffield FC The World’s First Football Club’ the other day. Very interesting facts which are grist to my mill. P. 19 Sheffield Daily Telegraph ‘The club... numbers amongst its members the élite of the town and the neighbourhood’.
5 of 5 So What?It’s a bad day when I prefer Wikipedia. At least with Wiki, there might be a screen grab of a newspaper article. I can appreciate that a computer’s attempt to read many microfiches of old papers will be impossible. Which is why I trust humans for my expert comments. Mostly.
November 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
5 of 5 So What?It’s a bad day when I prefer Wikipedia. At least with Wiki, there might be a screen grab of a newspaper article. I can appreciate that a computer’s attempt to read many microfiches of old papers will be impossible. Which is why I trust humans for my expert comments. Mostly.
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball This is a rugby story with crucial football parallels from NLS digitised books. ‘Loretto School’ by H. B. Tristram publ. 1911. Loretto is a rugby school. Tristram claims they played 11 a side rugby in 1872 as an experiment v Edinburgh Acad. What a coincidental number!
October 30, 2025 at 6:21 AM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball This is a rugby story with crucial football parallels from NLS digitised books. ‘Loretto School’ by H. B. Tristram publ. 1911. Loretto is a rugby school. Tristram claims they played 11 a side rugby in 1872 as an experiment v Edinburgh Acad. What a coincidental number!
4 of 5 HBC voted to cease: in major part due to the onerous conditions in the new lease. £2k a year rent seems good, but City Properties insisted on a list of repairs that would require HBC to have a revenue of £100s of thousands a year to keep up. They would have known this was not feasible.
October 24, 2025 at 5:32 AM
4 of 5 HBC voted to cease: in major part due to the onerous conditions in the new lease. £2k a year rent seems good, but City Properties insisted on a list of repairs that would require HBC to have a revenue of £100s of thousands a year to keep up. They would have known this was not feasible.
3 of 5 This is one part of the story. Opened 1905, after Polmadie BC closed. Hampden BC was built on part of the pitch of the world’s first purpose built international Football Ground. I call it the Omphalos - the belly button - of the world. If you are a Football fan, the soul of your game is here.
October 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
3 of 5 This is one part of the story. Opened 1905, after Polmadie BC closed. Hampden BC was built on part of the pitch of the world’s first purpose built international Football Ground. I call it the Omphalos - the belly button - of the world. If you are a Football fan, the soul of your game is here.
2 of 5 Time moves on. Bowling is a minority sport. We have lost Govan, Kings Park, Farme, Pollokshields, Kingston, Mount Florida and god knows how many other Clubs. We are not alone. I visited Glen Eira Mckinnon BC in Melbourne a few weeks ago. About 40 members left. Average age probably late 50s.
October 24, 2025 at 5:25 AM
2 of 5 Time moves on. Bowling is a minority sport. We have lost Govan, Kings Park, Farme, Pollokshields, Kingston, Mount Florida and god knows how many other Clubs. We are not alone. I visited Glen Eira Mckinnon BC in Melbourne a few weeks ago. About 40 members left. Average age probably late 50s.
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball Many of you will have noticed the media reports about the possible death of Hampden Bowling Club. Disclosure: I am one of the members who was present at the historic meeting. You need a little context. Bowling was invented by the Scots and was once extremely popular.
October 24, 2025 at 5:23 AM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball Many of you will have noticed the media reports about the possible death of Hampden Bowling Club. Disclosure: I am one of the members who was present at the historic meeting. You need a little context. Bowling was invented by the Scots and was once extremely popular.
1 of 5 One tactic I love to employ, is taking a quote from a book which is not about Scotland and explaining how the chosen words help prove that #scotsfoundedfootball Here we go with Brendan Murphy’s ‘From Sheffield With Love’. Chapter 5 ‘A Knockout Idea’. Top tip: Sheffield is not in Scotland.
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
1 of 5 One tactic I love to employ, is taking a quote from a book which is not about Scotland and explaining how the chosen words help prove that #scotsfoundedfootball Here we go with Brendan Murphy’s ‘From Sheffield With Love’. Chapter 5 ‘A Knockout Idea’. Top tip: Sheffield is not in Scotland.
Sundown today is just after 6 pm so even on a rainy cold day, you could get a wee kickabout after work. That leaves Saturday and Sunday in the winter months, though Robinson is quite clear that they practiced assiduously. With a ground from 1873 it must have been easier, even when it was dark.
October 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Sundown today is just after 6 pm so even on a rainy cold day, you could get a wee kickabout after work. That leaves Saturday and Sunday in the winter months, though Robinson is quite clear that they practiced assiduously. With a ground from 1873 it must have been easier, even when it was dark.
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball From the 1890s onwards there was a surge in publication of books about the history of the game. Most of the pioneers were still around, though in their 60s, so it made sense. 1904 ‘The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes’.
October 9, 2025 at 11:19 PM
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball From the 1890s onwards there was a surge in publication of books about the history of the game. Most of the pioneers were still around, though in their 60s, so it made sense. 1904 ‘The Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes’.
The grave of Dr. John Jaap of Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum died 1877. Interred Toowong Cemetery. And Glasgow University.
October 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
The grave of Dr. John Jaap of Woogaroo Lunatic Asylum died 1877. Interred Toowong Cemetery. And Glasgow University.
Notice the steep drop to the river. I am standing up where the main building was in 1875. The Club House uses a building from the 1950s. The first inmates arrived by boat from Brisbane. I think it was just outside the Brisbane boundary.
October 7, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Notice the steep drop to the river. I am standing up where the main building was in 1875. The Club House uses a building from the 1950s. The first inmates arrived by boat from Brisbane. I think it was just outside the Brisbane boundary.
When the Brisbane River floods - it really floods. A wee boat dumped on top of the roof of a shed from the last floods. The original planners in the 19th century were misinformed about the flooding issues.
October 7, 2025 at 11:06 PM
When the Brisbane River floods - it really floods. A wee boat dumped on top of the roof of a shed from the last floods. The original planners in the 19th century were misinformed about the flooding issues.
Here I am at one of my bucket list trips. Wolston Park Golf Course First hole. The guy in the club shop says the first hole is pretty much unchanged. So clear to see before the floods forced a move a few hundred metres north, that this could have been a Football pitch.
October 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Here I am at one of my bucket list trips. Wolston Park Golf Course First hole. The guy in the club shop says the first hole is pretty much unchanged. So clear to see before the floods forced a move a few hundred metres north, that this could have been a Football pitch.
1 of 5 Scotland in Australia appears in Brendan Murphy’s book on p. 52. As ever, the focus of the narrative does not allow for the acceptance of the central, core truth that #scotsfoundedfootball or Scotland had played a regular scientific game, for centuries. I assume my work passed him by.
October 3, 2025 at 1:50 AM
1 of 5 Scotland in Australia appears in Brendan Murphy’s book on p. 52. As ever, the focus of the narrative does not allow for the acceptance of the central, core truth that #scotsfoundedfootball or Scotland had played a regular scientific game, for centuries. I assume my work passed him by.
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball I decided to do a second set of posts because a wiki picture annoyed me and I wasn’t even looking for it. The Black Plaque on the site of the Freemasons' Tavern, where some poshies met in 1863 to talk about the obscure games they played at their private schools.
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball I decided to do a second set of posts because a wiki picture annoyed me and I wasn’t even looking for it. The Black Plaque on the site of the Freemasons' Tavern, where some poshies met in 1863 to talk about the obscure games they played at their private schools.
2 of 4 Geoffrey Green reported on the game and the other drubbing at Wembley. Again I thank p.195 of Glanville’s ‘Footballer’s Companion’. English players were ‘...single units, moving separately and only occasionally thinking along co-operative lines.’ That sounds like Twentieth Century Dodoball.
September 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
2 of 4 Geoffrey Green reported on the game and the other drubbing at Wembley. Again I thank p.195 of Glanville’s ‘Footballer’s Companion’. English players were ‘...single units, moving separately and only occasionally thinking along co-operative lines.’ That sounds like Twentieth Century Dodoball.
3 of 4 Were Peñarol the continuation of CURCC or a new club? The cricket club CURCC folded in 1915. From where did their colours come? From the Rocket locomotive that won the Rainhill Trials in 1829. Importance to football? Zero.
September 27, 2025 at 10:45 PM
3 of 4 Were Peñarol the continuation of CURCC or a new club? The cricket club CURCC folded in 1915. From where did their colours come? From the Rocket locomotive that won the Rainhill Trials in 1829. Importance to football? Zero.
2 of 4 In a year they started playing football. They were co-founders of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) in 1905. Their main rivals were the criollo team Nacional. They became Peñarol in 1914 and started an argument which continues to this day.
September 27, 2025 at 10:43 PM
2 of 4 In a year they started playing football. They were co-founders of the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) in 1905. Their main rivals were the criollo team Nacional. They became Peñarol in 1914 and started an argument which continues to this day.
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball OTD 1891 Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club founded. English name, Scottish Game. Football, that is. You will have noted all the countries where English sportsmen founded cricket clubs. No success at all. The Scots in these clubs pushed football.
September 27, 2025 at 10:41 PM
1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball OTD 1891 Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club founded. English name, Scottish Game. Football, that is. You will have noted all the countries where English sportsmen founded cricket clubs. No success at all. The Scots in these clubs pushed football.