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Today I am in Court. Not for being a rank bad yin, but to offer support to Greg Brown, as he works to save Cathkin Park for the Public. Fair play to him. Nothing in it for him. Just the establishment of a principle.
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1 of 6 The Endangered Cathkin Park. I took a stroll around, last week, doing my documentary photography. It is most concerning. As I predicted, the planned separation of the pitch from the stadium will mean the stadium disappears. We are close to losing a world heritage site.
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Today, when Scotland’s National cup final is placed 2nd by the UK media and the SFA, never forget Celtic and ICT are playing for the world’s oldest National trophy. The same one QPFC won in 1874. That had the EFA asking the SFA how they could make their competition as popular.
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OTD 1890 Sevilla FC founded by Scots. Claimed as the first club founded solely for football (not sport and rec). Burns Night Supper was the reason the footballers were together. I say, Alcock, old chap. How do you spin this for English football?
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1890 Sevilla FC founded at a Burns Supper by Scots. Claimed as the first club founded solely for football (not sport and rec). I hope you saw my article in the National, on Sunday. A general piece for those not overly interested in Football.
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I could support England but as sure as God made little green apples some eejit will mention how ‘it’ is coming home and that’s me done. I didn’t spend the last three decades showing how Scotland invented modern football, to change my mind now.
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1 of 4 If it’s Burns Night then we have to be in Seville. OTD 1890 Sevilla FC founded by Scots. Claimed as the first club founded solely for football (not sport and rec). Burns Night Supper was the reason the footballers were together.
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I waited a bit to do a wee piece on the Pele/Watson mural in Shawlands, to spread out the publicity for this excellent work. It is passed by thousands of people per day. I hope the gold backgrounds are arresting enough to make people stop and think.
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OTD 1904 Ferrocarril Oeste
@FerroOficial
Historic club. You can see the British influence, due to its foundation by an English owned railway company. The Western Railway. Not unusual. Quilmes were founded for the Ferrocarril Del Sud workers.
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OTD 1873 the Scottish Football Association was founded. It immediately became the governing body for the whole country. It had a set of rules which which was similar to, but separate from those of London, Sheffield, Oxford, Cambridge or Rugby.
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The mural is finished! The Game That Broke English Hearts 11th March 1882.
#scotsfoundedfootball
#tartanarmy
#scotchprofessor
Come out of Crosshill Station. Walk towards Hampden. Observe the site where Scots confirmed they were masters and inventors of the world game.
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Some good news. Greg Brown has won his Judicial Review of Glasgow City Council's decision to award planning permission for the Cathkin Park fence. 'A material error of law'. Appeal possible in the next 4 weeks. No-one is under any delusion that this is the end of the matter.
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OTD 1867 QPFC founded. Every year I celebrate this date. Without Queen’s Park, I would not have been in Scotland for the last 3 decades, be married to an Edinburgh lass (demon winger btw) and be writing my book. Of all the dates, this is THE ONE.
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Kevin McCarra RIP. An extra tweet, to mourn the loss of a great historian and journalist. If you don’t have this book, then obtain it. Pretty much every idea I had for the Football Museum has its roots in his pages. A sad day.
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@Keir_Starmer
@England
@GordonBrown
@lisanandy
@TracyBrabin
@RachelReevesMP
Dear Mr Starmer. The only home football has ever had is on the south side of Glasgow. In Scotland.
#scotchprofessor
#scotsfoundedfootball
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Let us talk about lions. Scotland has one and England has three. Or do they? Let me get all heraldic on your ass. Do you know how many lions there are on the England shirt? If you answered 3, go and sit down. There are none. How can this be?
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West Boathouse now saved for Scotland. Beautiful. Glasgow Green is stunning in the morning sun though I would have liked a seat to rest my weary bones rather than a tree stump.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY SPIDERS! “To-night, at half-past eight o'clock, a number of gentlemen met at No 3 Eglinton Terrace for the purpose of forming a ‘football club’”. The greatest line in the history of football. THIS is the day modern football started.
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OTD 1882 Scotland 5 England 1 First Hampden. The Game That Broke English Hearts. The game that changed English football, forever. Not Scotland - they just carried on playing the
#scotchprofessor
way. Another defeat, but this time England understood.
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@queensparkfc
@Hampdeners
6 of 6 So what?
@queensparkfc
demolished the world’s oldest football related building. We now have Cathkin renamed Hampden. Decisions taken which accelerate the decay of an extraordinary site, with the support of a group who are dedicated to ‘saving’ our heritage. Aye. Right.
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OTD 1885 Billy Hunter b. Alva, Clackmannanshire. Manager of the Netherlands, Lausanne Sports, Turkey, Galatasaray. Most of you who like football history will be thinking ‘Who is Billy Hunter’? One of the most influential coaches of the 20th century.
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1875 Hibernian founded. The world’s first ‘foreign’ team. A club for immigrants who were despised in their new countries. Despised. If you think I am being melodramatic, here is a USA Harper’s Weekly image and a cracker from Punch from England.
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1908 Hampden Park Scotland v England 121,452. A world record at the time. Hampden did not lose this until July 13th 1950 Maracaña. These stats always need to be contextualised with the relative populations of the countries and cities.
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The 1878 England game at the 1st Hampden cannot be mentioned enough. One of the crucial matches nailing the lie of England inventing modern football. A narrow 7-2 win. Sorry - misread my notes, there: a massacre of dramatically inferior opposition.
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In 1889 the Huelva Recreation Club (RCD Recreativo Huelva) was f. by Scots Alexander Mackay and Robert Russell from the Rio Tinto Mining Co. Huelva claims to be the oldest football club still in existence in Spain. The
#scotchprofessor
had arrived.
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So what? The lack of respect is disappearing. I have watched people of different ethnic/religious backgrounds quite literally uncovering our story. It makes the last week one of the best of my life. Remember this at 2 pm Monday 14th
#scotchprofessor
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OTD 1877
#queensparkfc
beat Rangers 4-0, to become the first holders of the Glasgow Merchants’ Charity Cup. The trophy is the second oldest major trophy in existence, beaten only by the SFA Cup. Queens should have played Vale of Leven.
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OTD 1888 George Pattullo b. Glasgow. Scored 43 goals in 23 games for Barcelona. Known as El Gran Pattullo His memorial is in Cathcart Cemetery. Not buried there, we are informed. We now have a different angle. George is a reason to visit the Cemetery.
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I was thinking of Clincart Farm, the other day. You know: the building which now houses the club which founded modern world football. It is surrounded by buildings but it was not ever thus. Once it was in the countryside in Cathcart Parish.
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First Hampden OTD 1877 1st Charity Cup Final QPFC 4 Rangers 0 Do I ever need an excuse to talk about my beloved Glasgow Merchants Charity Cup? You’re new here, aren’t you? The second oldest major trophy in the world. Both Scottish. Both Glaswegian.
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I interrupt my normal tweets to muse on the last week. Most specifically the Archaeology Scotland dig at the site of the First Hampden. In my view, the tipping point which I have been seeking, for the past four decades, has now been reached.
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OTD a football match began in Glasgow. One which would change sporting history. Inspired by the coaching of Robert Gardner, a TEAM of Scots from many parts of the nation took on a team picked by a London Association struggling to make its way.
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So what? One day, probably when I am long dead, FIFA will acclaim this date as the one when modern football started. Only then will the world understand that it was the genius of the Scottish Spider who spun a web to encompass the world.
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A pleasant day with members of the Scots Football Historians’ Group, and our our pal Jacqui Fernie
@CathcartCem
This is the first grave we have assisted with, in Cathcart Cemetery. Guests of honour had to be Colin and Alex Taylor from Birmingham.
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Heads up for Radio Scotland tomorrow morning. I will be discussing Scotland’s role as the founders of modern world football at 06:40. Other things in the pipeline as well…
#scotchprofessor
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Happy birthday and a long life to our friends
@SevillaFC
@SevillaFC_ENG
I hope to be alive to celebrate 150.
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OTD 1846 William McGregor born Braco, Perthshire. Founded the English Football League 1888. A Scottish idea. Another
#scotchprofessor
to whom I will return, time after time, until people start linking the pieces I fashion, into the whole jigsaw.
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HAPPY FOOTBALL FOUNDERS DAY! Any Scot, stand and take a bow. Accept heartfelt thanks from planet Earth for saving us from terminal boredom. At 2:15 pm on a cold November day Scotland gave us their gift of modern world football. BEST. PRESENT. EVER!
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Blackburn Olympic were the first working-class winners of the English Cup in 1883 2-1 v Old Etonians. I came across some facts, which were interesting when put together. OE were annoyed that Olympic had trained for the match. Training was cheating.
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Hey
@ScottishFA
If you want to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the
#scotchprofessor
founding modern world football, why don’t you organise some games against crucial countries who took our game: Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Austria, Spain.
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OTD 1865 Thomas Archibald Scott b. Dundee. Pioneer of Brazilian Football. A man almost unknown, because he does not fit the trope of the posh Englishman abroad teaching the natives how to kick a ball. His influence was on São Paulo State football.
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OTD 1900 FC Escocès of Barcelona play their first game. Name changed from St. Andrew by immigrants from Newmilns. Lose 0-2 to Barça who are playing their 6th game. Only lasted a season due to Barça imposing a boycott on teams with Scottish Players.
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OTD 1908 Hampden Park Scotland v England 121,452 world record at the time. Hampden did not lose pole position until 1950, when the Maracanã opened. This tweet is not just about the game. It is about a small country still leading the world.
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OTD March 11th 1882 The Game That Broke English Hearts - Scotland 5 England 1 This is THE defining moment for football. The dominant narrative in history forces us to look south to public schools. No.
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So - thanks to the sterling work of Alistair Firth, Kevin Donnelly and a host of Tartan Army boys and girls, Andrew Watson, has a grave, worthy of the great man. I have to say that I never expected the marble to come up so beautifully.
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In the run-up to the 150th Anniversary, I pay due deference to journos like Patrick Barclay who have argued for the
#scotchprofessor
. Hard to dislike an article: ‘After 150 years the truth: Scotland invented football’.
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One of the best football history related projects I have seen in 20 years.
It’s been a crazy busy day on site! Some great geo-phis results led to opening trenches over what might just be the
#FirstHampden
! Really exciting stuff! Plus we got to meet the lovely folks from
@JamboRadio1
who came to visit the site - thanks for coming!
#ScotArchStrat
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4 of 4 So what? I observed the extraordinary abuse of
@billykayscot
by self-loathing Scots who reject their culture. In Japan, Billy would be designated a National Living Treasure - yet here we are. All cultures are equal. Make sure you nurture your own and those who create it.
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As we move closer to the 150th Anniversary of Scotland giving modern football to the world, I am girding my loins. Will it be an onslaught of lies, or will Scotland be eased to one side, as the media talk about England? Whatever, we have to be ready.
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Yesterday I attended the AGM of Hampden Bowling Club
@hampdenbowling
I play bowls with my mother in law but have only delivered a couple of bowls on the green which sits atop the world’s first international football pitch. Why am I telling you this?
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OTD 1886 John Harley born Cathcart, Glasgow. Reformer of Uruguayan football. El Reformador. One of the dozen most influential footballers of all time - and most people have never heard of him. His life is an example of Combination v Dodoball.
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1901 Geordie Girvan (ex-FC Escocesés) scores Barcelona’s first official goal in a Copa Macaya game. A Scottish team helps give birth to one of the world’s greatest clubs. Its original name? St. Andreu: situated in the Barça neighbourhood of that name.
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A song so ludicrously wrong it would be funny if it did not mean that Scottish History was being smothered. And don’t get me started on Three Lions…
When England fans sing “Fooball’s coming home”, they’re perpetuating one of their greatest myths & one of the greatest lies ever told - that they invented modern football! Talk about cultural appropriation….this is grand larceny on a global scale! It wis us that created fitba.
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Extra tweet because Google have a Celebrate Andrew Watson image up! Nice blue and white hoops of Edinburgh Accies via Dr. John Smith.
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The day is here. The day when QPFC formally introduced the English nation to football. ‘Formally’, because London would have been aware of the Spiders and their style since 1867. Funny how a 0-0 game has become the most influential score of all time.
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One day before the birthday of
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and it would be a poor show if I didn’t laud the 3 Historians who were responsible for the research which confirmed that 404 Victoria Road was the meeting place for the first meeting.
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OTD 1846 William McGregor born Braco, Perthshire. Founded the English Football League 1888. A Scottish idea. Another
#scotchprofessor
to whom I will return, time after time, until people start linking the pieces I fashion into the whole jigsaw.
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OTD 1952 John Harley is named Reformer of Uruguayan Football. In the Estadio Centenario in front of the 1912 Peñarol team they gave him the respect and recognition he is yet to receive in the UK. I mean that quite specifically. The UK.
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1899 Bart McGhee born Edinburgh. First Scot to score in a World Cup 1930 for USA. This gives me a chance to discuss the USA,
#scotchprofessor
ethnicity and the depth of American Football.
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OTD 1889 Rosario Central founded. First President Scotsman Colin Calder. That would be Colin Bain Calder born Dingwall 16th April 1860. You will be shocked - shocked - to find a
#scotchprofessor
here - and a railway. Ferrocarril Central Argentino.
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OTD 1884 Buenos Aires English High School founded by Alexander Watson Hutton. One of THE most important dates in world football. One of THE most influential men in world football. There is a direct line from BAEHS via Alumni to Lionel Messi.
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Bart McGhee is one of my faves and this is his day. In 1930, he became the first Scot, to score in a World Cup competition and only the second person - EVER! From where did his football lineage come? FISH. BARREL. Let us look at Scotland, children :-)
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2 of 5 The Friends of Cathkin deserve our respect for backing the simple principle that public spaces should not be privatised. As it stands we look to have a park where the major green space has a giant fence around it. A park controlled by a private organisation.
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@queensparkfc
Demolishing the oldest known football building in the world? Did I understand that correctly?
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#scotsfoundedfootball
So what? There is only one true lion in heraldry: the lion rampant (unrestrained). You know: the one that’s on the Scotland shirt. The shirt worn by the FOUNDERS OF MODERN FOOTBALL. Drops mic. Looks smugly at the sleekit wussy leopards. Awimoway.
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OTD 1884 Anglo-Queensland FA f. at the Australian Hotel, Brisbane. First 3 teams? St. Andrews, Queens Park, Rangers. It’s like Argentina. The names are so stereotypically Scottish, anyone putting ‘England Invented It’ should be laughed out of town.
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Black History Month so let us start with Bangu and Brazil. Lots of YouTube vids in Portuguese telling us about our own Thomas Donohoe from Paisley. It cannot be repeated enough: you should not care about who kicked a ball first unless it tells you...
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OTD 1872 in the Regimental Orderly Room, Howard St, Glasgow the Third Lanark Athletic Club were founded. Captain Inglis the first President The reason? The excitement caused by the world’s first Association Football international.
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You can shove 1863 up yer referee’s whistle. Posh blokes in London decide to claim the People’s Game as theirs. Naw!, In a room on the Victoria Road, a meeting took place which changed the world. A group of Scots brought order to the Combination Game.
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OTD 1856 Andrew Watson b. British Guyana. One man changes football history. A South American perfects the beautiful game. A synthesis of Guyana and Scotland. A continent with three of the best nations playing the Beautiful Game. I like the symbolism.
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5 of 5 So What? I do not understand the lengthy fight for JJA to take over a heritage site when they are backed by one of the richest men in the UK. Willie Haughey could buy them a purpose built ground with the change down the back of his couch. It does not add up.
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@QPAllyD
@alistair_firth
@queensparkfc
@AlbaGman
@BeerhuntersTA
@NotInSeddon
@AndyMitchMedia
Mate - why? Phil is one of three eminent historians who - through years of research - proved that 404 was the first meeting site. They had to watch as
@hampdeners
went big on KES and now have pics taken at the site they rejected. More neck than a giraffe.
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On my way to see Joseph Taylor.
#scotchprofessor
The view just inside Cathcart Cemetery looking across to the New - where the founder of Sevilla lies.
#scotsfoundedfootball
What a day to be alive! If you pardon the expression.
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God - it took me ages to find Joseph Taylor’s grave and I have been here before. Men like Joseph are THE reason we have modern world football.
#scotchprofessor
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3 of 4 Hugh (Hugo) MacColl died in his home town of Glasgow in 1915. He is buried in Cathcart Cemetery. His link? Engineering. Edward Farquharson Johnston from Elgin? Shipping: MacAndrews Line. When the influence died, Scottish Combination was firmly a part of the Andalusian DNA.
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Tomorrow has two important games so here is the first one. 21st March 1874
#queensparkfc
beat Clydesdale 2-0 in the first ever Scottish Cup Final at the First Hampden Park. A stat hiding the importance of the time.
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I will continue to push ideas being the most important thing that Scottish Football produced. John Harley from Cathcart goes to Argentina to work for a bevy of railway companies. I am sure he was a good footballer. Was he great? Who knows? Who cares?
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I cannot leave the QPFC rules of 1867. They are vital in understanding why Scotland invented modern world football. Remember Mary Stuart at Carlisle Castle in 1568? Watching Scots playing football ‘strongly, nimbly and skilfully, without foul play’?
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1904 Ferrocarril Oeste founded. Trains: drivers of the Industrial Revolution and providers of works teams who created the structure of football in many countries. This was the Western Railway of Argentina.
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OTD 1876 Wanderers 0 QPFC 6 (Oval). Yet another game where, try as I might, I cannot see any way in which the angloposhies can spin this to show how - erm - England invented football. Let’s give it a go. God loves a trier. Glasgow Herald 6th Nov 1876.
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Funny how the whole world accepts the genius of the
#scotchprofessor
except for the UK (for which read England). The great only appear great because we are on our knees. Let us arise. Death to Dodoball!
Special edition ball used for the Argentina-Uruguay game on Thursday night. Commemorating 130 years of the Argentinian Football Association, the ball chronicles Glasgow-born Alexander Watson Hutton’s birth, arrival to Argentina & his founding of AFA: “Padre del Fútbol Argentino”
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1 of 4 So - that’s me back from the Court of Session, Outer House. Thoughts, this evening. An interesting day was had by our wee group, who turned up to offer moral support to Greg Brown. We gathered in the hall where the Scottish Parliament met until 1707.
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OTD 1836 Edward Hannan b Ballingarry Limerick. 1st manager of Hibernian. Priest at St. Patrick’s Cowgate. It is often missed that the first Irish football team in the world was the Hibernian Club of Edinburgh. Founded 1875. Name is latin for Ireland.
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Chris: I am 100% certain that the Association Game is the game of the Scots. That the story of football's creation is an anglocentric lie - from start to finish, is an issue with which I am dealing. Trust me on this.
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In 1923 Richard Robinson produced a booklet condensing his history of QPFC into 54 pages - of which half are adverts. I mention this as an excuse to show the front cover which is a design masterpiece. The aerial photo inside is also worthy of comment.
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Waiting for my wee BBC Radio interview about 09:45 on Good Morning Scotland. Origins of the Scottish Cup. Yay.
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OTD 1867 Hugh McQueen born. Liverpool’s Team of the Macs. This is one of those pivotal points in football which is mentioned, but never explained - from the anglocentric historian. Liverpool are one of THE greatest Scottish clubs of the Victorian Era.
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OTD 1836 Edward Hannan b Ballingarry Limerick. 1st manager of Hibernian. Priest at St. Patrick’s Cowgate. It is often missed that the first Irish football team in the world was the Hibernian FC of Edinburgh. Founded 1875. Name is latin for Ireland.
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#RememberClincart
December 2021 is one of the darkest days for Football History in Scotland and therefore, by extension the world. Clincart Farm was razed to the ground by (I assume)
@queensparkfc
I am being vague. I have never spoken to anyone at QPFC. Who gave the order?
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4 of 4 So what?The essential truth? Highly intelligent Scots with portable skills use their gifts for the benefit of their new nations. These gifts would unsurprisingly be used in their leisure hours. If you can run a shipping line, founding a new club is an easy matter.
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@queensparkfc
@Hampdeners
5 of 6 Coming down the North terracing is now quite dangerous. You need shoes with a good grip. We are close to some Council officer wanting it closed for ‘safety reasons’. Then we will see a move to demolish the terracing as ‘too far gone’. Look at the old and new pictures.
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The Demolition of the world’s oldest football related building. Clincart Farm - recorded 18th December 2021. Building owned by the Queen’s Park FC.
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OTD 1904 Bangu Athletic Club founded. First Brazilian club to have black and mixed-race players. Thomas Donohoe from Busby a founder. Professional Dyer. We have to push this guy, to get past the ‘Charles Miller’ father of Brazilian football rubbish.
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1 of 6 OTD 1914 Scottish Wanderers play their first game in the Paulista Championship v Ypiranga. Finished 5th out of 6th. Hardly the greatest statistic ever, but you know what I think about statistics. The point is their influence on the development of Brazilian Football.
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@forgottenclubs
@Hampdeners
@TFHBs
@fussballgeekz
@R_McBrearty
@FionaSkillen
@AboutScotlandd
@robertmdaws
@retrofootballnw
@AntiqueFootball
For non-UK followers this celebrates the day in 1872 when
#scotsfoundedfootball
The first time England saw passing and running. The international debut of the
#scotchprofessor
who took football around the world.
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2 of 4 It harks back to that time when Scots were moving around the world doing their engineering/mining/teaching thing and founding world football, in their spare time. The Dundee - Sevilla Orange/Engineering link made founding football clubs, a certainty.
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OTD 1939 Ibrox Stadium British club record attendance 118,567. Actually the record British League attendance for a club at their home stadium. As with all Glasgow records, I regard it as on the conservative side.
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6 of 6 So What? Who to support in the Euro24 Final? Do as you please. Nation A, who copied the
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and took Scottish Combination to greater heights? Nation B, who took Scottish Combination and then pretended that they invented it? Have I picked my team? Sí, señor.
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