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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Meisl’s small piece in The Footballer’s Companion contains a brief, searing indictment of 20th century UK football. 4-3 defeat of Austria by England in 1932. European players were awestruck by playing in England - an ‘incredible inferiority complex’.

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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

2 of 4 English critics ‘raved’ about the Austrians. Such almost intellectual football had become a rarity in Britain even then...’ This is where both Scotland and England started getting their asses handed to them by improvers of the #scotchprofessor game. Who started the UK race to stupidity?

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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

3 of 4 Scotland lost 5-0 in Vienna 1931. 2-2 at Hampden 1933. The crowd at Hampden also reportedly raved about their play, to be reminded by the old yins in the crowd that, it was how Scotland used to play 40 years before. Artistic licence but the concept holds: brains v lump it to the big man.

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