Scotland has been insisting that Football invented itand quite before the English.
The story places in 1863 The first written regulation, with just 14 standards, adopted by the students of Eton y Harrowas a founding stone of modern football, among other things because finally separated football from the Mob-Football, the mass, without rules, sometimes with the eyes covered, for hours, drunk and with many injured.
But 200 years before, that football with rules, Tacitas, perhaps not written (the workers left nothing written), it was already played in Scotland. He holds it, already documentary, Ged O'Brien, founder of the Scottish soccer museum in Glasgow. “For centuries, in all the towns and cities of Scotland, football has been played, long before England”says.
A few weeks ago he embarked on a BBC team to record on Anwoth (Kirkcudbrightshire), near the church, a land called Mossrobin Farm, where really played football in a field with similar measures To the current ones: 275 feet long and 150 feet wide.
A well? Actually O'Brien has documentation, a letter written by Reverendo Samuel Rutherforda Presbyterian cleric who was Anwoth's shepherd between 1627. There he expresses his anger because the parishioners played “football” on Sunday afternoon instead of going to the church and ordered to put a barrier of stones in the middle of the field to cut the game and deter them.
The Anworth parish
In the documentary they invite an archaeologist to analyze the Pedruscos and effectively conclude that neither a limit nor to cultivation lands, nor to help confine cattle but that S s that SAnd they bet on a floor of 400 years ago, when Rutherford moved with the matches. It was not a wall, but a temporary barrier.
“There were many paths that led to the field, four centuries ago, All on a radius of 10 miles (16 kms) knew where it was ”, O'Brien points out. “And playing on Sundays I had to have rules because you worked on Monday and you couldn't be injured, it was not the violent mob-futbol, but the football of now. It is the ancestor, the grandfather, of modern world football, and is Scottish”, Values.
“We have the test we need to show that Scotland invented modern football, because the game they played is the one everyone plays throughout the world. So you can be on the slope of a mountain in the Himalayas watching a football game that Anwarth's ghosts will be watching “closes poetically and felt o'Brien ..
