Scottish football historian. Edinburgh. www.scottishsporthistory.com
Andy Mitchell
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At the weekend I gave a paper at the International Football History Conference #footycon26. I explained how and why the Meadows was so important for the early development of football in Edinburgh, long before association rules came along in the 1870s. www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
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Argentina start their World Cup tonight, so here's my story about Alexander Watson Hutton, the Edinburgh man who overcame personal tragedy to become 'the father of Argentine football' www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo... [image from the Scottish Diaspora Tapestry]
Doing a bit of background reading, Jules Rimet's wonderful memoir on the history of the World Cup. Love his chapter on the 1930 tournament, and detailed account of the transatlantic voyage to Uruguay. France, Belgium and Romania teams all travelled on the same boat.
#OTD 16 June 1954, Scotland played their first ever World Cup finals match. Despite dominating much of the play, it didn't end well, losing 1-0 to Austria.
I'm quoted in this piece on the origin of 'soccer' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A call for ideas about historic Scottish football sites - what would you suggest? www.historicenvironment.scot/about-us/new...
The full story is here www.scottishsporthistory.com/sports-histo...
Football is life for millions of fans around the world, but in two World Cup co-host nations, they tend to call it by a different name.
Interesting article on the history of football, with a focus on Scotland, in L'Equipe.
www.lequipe.fr/Football/Art...
Andy Mitchell
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Andy Mitchell
It's a word which was invented in the Victorian era as the short form of association football and has spread around the world, but the origins of 'soccer' remain shrouded in obscurity. For a...
HES is inviting the public to help identify sites linked to the development of football in Scotland
www.historicenvironment.scot
Over in Markers 2, @andymitchellmedia.bsky.social tells us about Edinburgh’s meadows and how they are a crucible for football in Scotland’s capital.
A literal look at “Grassroots” football
PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 June 2016. Labour MP Helen Joanne (“Jo”) Cox (aged 41), was murdered by a far right extremist in Birstall, West Yorkshire. She was 1st sitting UK MP to be assassinated since the Conservative Party’s Ian Gow, who was killed by an IRA car bomb on 30 July 1990.
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I recently spoke at the International Football History Conference in London, about the significance of the Meadows for the early development of football in Edinburgh. It is well known that ...
L'historien Ged O'Brien a découvert ce qu'il pense être le tout premier terrain connu au monde. Nous y sommes allés avec lui pour suivre les traces d'un pasteur rigoriste et d'un curieux alignement de...
