This bojo fella’s really under your skin isn’t he? You do know this thread’s about the England football team?
this coming home stuff is all guff. Football, just like golf, was invented in Scotland. That said I had a good laugh at the traffic signs on Middlesbrough yesterday which said “the road to Wembley is clear. Drive Safe. Football is coming home” - made me smile. Back on track, well done England. Good luck in the final.
i may watch the game, and if i do, i will be cheering on Italy tho i don't really follow football. but the folks i do follow tell me the english team are good bunch both on and off the pitch so, hayhoo, all's good.
For those that challenge football is an English game brought to the world, see here https://thepfsa.co.uk/football-history/ Original probably Chinese, modern football England
Scotland’s own versions of football were written into history, with the Scottish Parliament banning it in 1457 – "And [th]at ye futebawe and ye golf be uterly cryt done and not usyt" said the Act, brought in because King James II feared the Scots were not practising archery enough. The oldest football in the world dates from the 16th century and was found in Stirling Castle. Intriguingly, in 1636 a Latin primer, Vocabula, was published by teacher David Wedderburn in Aberdeen. Translated, one passage reads: “Start the game by kicking the ball. Strike it here. You guard the goal. If you can, seize the ball from him. Come on, block him. Retrieve the ball. Kick it back.” Scholars still argue about that passage and what it described. . There’s no doubt that the original rules of Association Football were conceived and written in England, with the rules drawn up at Cambridge University being influential before the Football Association was founded in 1863, largely to formulate 13 rules or laws for the sport. The rival Sheffield association had its own rules and gradually the laws were agreed upon but it took the involvement of the other associations in these islands to finalise them. Which is why to this day the laws of football are decided by the International Football Association Board which consists of representatives from the four Home Associations and four from world governing body FIFA. Scotland’s footballers adopted the laws but were already developing their own way of playing football which emphasised passing rather than the dribbling game preferred by the English. SO ARE YOU SAYING SCOTLAND INVENTED MODERN FOOTBALL? Yes. Football as we know it is a passing game, and Ged O’Brien, former curator of the Scottish Football Museum, has proven categorically that the passing game was developed here in Scotland and exported to England and elsewhere. Glasgow and what is now West Dunbartonshire – Dumbarton, Renton, Alexandria Athletic and Vale of Leven were all top clubs – were the cradles of the sort of football which is now played worldwide. Scotland saw football as a team game and practised it, England viewed training as cheating, and of course professionalism was not allowed at first. England’s FA Cup was the first national tournament of any kind, but the Scottish Cup remains the oldest football trophy in the world.
which isnt actually true. WHO WERE THE FIRST DOMINANT INTERNATIONAL SIDE? Scotland, no question. The first international fixture was a 0-0 draw between Scotland and England in Glasgow in 1872. For the next 14 years, Scotland lost only twice to England. Wales were regularly hammered, and in 1881, Scotland beat England 6-1 at the Oval – still England’s heaviest defeat on home turf. The Scots for that match were captained by Andrew Watson (below), the world’s first black international player and administrator, and the result was no fluke – Scotland beat England 5-1 the following year in Glasgow. in 1884, Scotland won the first Home International Championship beating the other three countries by a total of ten goals to one. Scotland won three of the first four championships outright and shared the other with England.
except the first head of the FA was a Scot and “the rangers” were playing football on Glasgow Green before it was a game in England.
It’s funny. The whole world recognises it’s England. But not the Scots. They’re too busy crying anti-English rhetoric at every opportunity
Btw as an Englishman am I allowed to shout for Mcntyre and Rory in the golf? One being Scot and other Irish, wasn’t sure if the Celts like English wishing their fellas well
Entertaining but closer to rugby and nothing to do with football. Although, that would be the real answer to hooliganism
