Historians Discover Scottish Football Is 500 Years Old, Only Two Teams Were Any Good Back Then As Well
By Alan Duffy
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The good old Beeb reports that, according to recently discovered documents from the court of King James IV, orgainsed football was being played north of the border as long ago as 1497.
A set of accounts in the documents show that the king paid two shillings for a bag of “fut ballis” in April of 1497, and according to Richard McBrearty, the curator of the Scottish Football Museum, the rules of the game were already starting to appear in the 15th and 16th Century, hundreds of years before football was codified at Cambridge in 1848 and well before football was really invented in 1992 (by Sky).
McBrearty says: “We know that the game was played in the royal court going back to the 15th Century, 1497, there’s accounts of footballs being ordered for the king’s court, by the lord high treasurer.”
“There’s fascinating stuff going into the 16th Century”, he continues, “There’s a game that Mary Queen of Scots watches in 1568, she’s just fled after the Battle of Langside and is at Carlisle Castle.”
“A Scottish retinue plays a game for her amusement for two hours and the game’s described as being a game of skill, with a little foul play, and the skill is mentioned because of the smallness of the ball.” Skill? Little foul play? This may have been a high point in Scottish football, then.
“The number of players is quite interesting, it mentions specifically 20 players, that suggests a small sided game of 10 in each side.”
The oldest football in the world, discovered in Stirling Castle, dates back to 1540. Here’s a photo of said ball being held by a hairy Scotsman.
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Doesn’t matter, Cambridge rules didn’t come out until the 19th Century which means that football that’s played today wasn’t born till the 19th Century.
So the Scots invented football. That explains the number of Scottish managers in the premiership.
you do realize it’s a joke?
wrdplywdnsdy, you’re a joke.
really a joke?
again you brits can’t except the scots were playing before you.
Nae joke laddie
Wait….!! THAT’S the 16″ softball my team from Legends Bar in West Allis, Wisconsin played with in the last two innings of our final season game against league champions Mindemann’s Trucking from Lannon, Wisconsin back in 1986!!
Imagine that it would show up HERE!!
Mindemann’s Trucking won the league trophy, but my guys from Legend’s Bar won the Beer Drinking Trophy.
I think we got the better part of that deal.
@FatNagako Nobody gives a fuck about your softball team
Anonymous says:
October 19, 2011 at 1:24 am
really a joke?
again you brits can’t except the scots were playing before you.
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Please tell me you were using irony right there.
Either way, even back than Scotland would have been rubbish on the international level.
Anonymous is such an idiot he thinks Brits and Scots are different. Moron.
….Also used ‘except’ when he meant ‘accept’.
Also love the amount of disparaging comments surrounding the quality of Scottish football today, they’ve had 500 years to perfect their technique and look what they’ve done instead.
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