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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

2 of 5 It will be impossible to find a society in the 1700s that did not play a field kicking game. So there is no necessary kudos in having the first of anything. Anwoth 1627 is just a fact because there isn’t an older fact about a pitch. But there will be one, lying hidden in the archives.

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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

3 of 5 Scots burst onto the scene in the 1860s because they already had the general concept of a field kicking game that used tactics, positions, training, logic and Combination. Regular parish Football. What happened from the 1830s on (John-Hope Rules etc) merely led to a structuring of Football.

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ScotsFoundedFootball @gedboy58.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

4 of 5 For England, a terrible thing happened in the 1860s. A tiny group of the social elite in London and the south East of England became dominant. Their sport was very minor, when you look at the laughable attendances at their big games. If England had gone with the Sheffield Code, who knows?

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