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.

Remembering former CFC player Jock Cameron who passed away OTD in 1950. Jock is buried in Blackburn Cemetery in an unmarked grave. buff.ly/egUwHsv

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. buff.ly/pPgzqTu

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...

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

#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 @beerhuntersta.bsky.social @gedboy58.bsky.social

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...

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.

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.

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.

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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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...

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).

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.)

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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.

5 of 5 So what? Analyse these two scenes. Both players beat half the opposition. Brockbank runs around, aimlessly and to no effect. Jerry Weir, playing to the tactics laid down for the #scotchprofessor is useful and direct, with similar skills. What does this tell us? You know what it tells us...

4 of 5 Two codes in one match. A disciplined cohort who had planned their football and moved around the pitch in pairs. Tactics which Shinty players would have recognised - as many of them were dual game players. An England team of brilliant individuals. All adept at dribbling and ‘Backing-Up’.

3 of 5 COMPARE AND CONTRAST. ‘Weir then took charge of the ball and carried it in fine style past both forwards and backs, and seemed likely to score, but England kicked the ball into touch’. Slow it down again. Consider the extraordinary world significance in the game that the Scots were playing.

1 of 5 2nd 1872 Post - #scotsfoundedfootball The topic of England NOT inventing football. I was tickled by two oft-missed quotes from a Glasgow Evening News report found by andymitchellmedia.bsky.social A nail in the coffin of the English creation myth. It is about the WAY the Game was played.

1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball The 1872 International is almost entirely presented as England’s story, but it wasn’t played for the reasons you might think. Not those ones from the history of Dodoball. I call the Victorian Poshy game #Dodoball. Its extinction was certain, the day the Scots arrived.

1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball I consider myself an expert on Football in a particular way. I know how to present Scotland’s story to people who are fans, not historians. My success is entirely contingent upon others. There is a level of people above me, who have collected the info, on which I thrive.

1 of 5 For my BlueSky new followers, I have taken time away from teaching to see family in Melbourne. I can return to see the lair of Eadie Fraser in Rookwood Cemetery. A #scotchprofessor par excellence. Lies with maybe ten paupers. He died and was buried within in a week of arriving in Sydney.

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4 of 5 Discovering Andrew Watson and then going on to prove he was the most INFLUENTIAL black footballer of all time. A vital term, to which I will return. Founding a national museum from scratch. Creating it from the ground up. Finding a collection without peer, due to the importance of Scotland.

3 of 5 That day was the day I saw Andrew Watson in old photos of Queen’s and Scotland. In a real sense it confirmed that my Feasibility Study for the SFA and GCC would recommend that Scotland deserved a home, where it could showcase the Football it gave to the world. And my proudest memories?

1 of 5 Now that I have decided to concentrate on BlueSky and say farewell to Twitter (until sanity returns to the portal), I would like to reintroduce my ideas and my lifelong plan to change the history of the Association game. My ideas can be summed up as #scotsfoundedfootball and #scotchprofessor