Football is not "Coming home" and probably never will

I have always found it amusing the claim by English fans and commentators that a World Cup win would see football “coming home”. If it were truly “coming home” it would be to Scotland and not to England it would be returning, for it was the Scots who truly devised the modern version of the game as we know it. Without our civilising intervention, what England might have given the world was just another version of rugby. When the so-called Football Association’ was formed at the instigation of a young solicitor from Hull, Ebenezer Morley, what he proposed would be seen now as a basis for rugby with extra violence.

Morley’s draft laws provided that a player could not only run with the ball in his hands but that opponents could stop him by charging, holding, tripping or hacking. A more civilised code did emerge but the English game was still mainly a question of head-down dribbling. It was the Scots who had the notion of artfully distributing the ball among the players. It started with young men, from Perthshire and the Highlands mainly, who gathered at Queen’s Park in Glasgow in 1867. They obtained a copy of the FA laws and amended them to conform with an almost scientific blend of dribbling and passing.

When they invented passing, these men had invented football. Far from being an English game, it was one that was conceived to confound the English because the Scots, being generally smaller than their opponents in football’s oldest international rivalry, could hardly afford to take them on physically. As Scots we can truly feel pride some pride this week as England take on Croatia in the World Cup semi-final. To have the English borrowing our history is quite a compliment, the only downside being that we are not in Russia to share in the glory of our invention of the ‘beautiful game’.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/sport/foot...ng-home-it-was-invented-in-scotland-1-4766677

 

Footballs nearly coming home but not quite cos it was actually invented a few miles up the road

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

 

If i remember Cartoon Cavalcade correctly, it was the Chinese who invented it.

 

****ing jocks haven’t invented anything ffs

Have a day off mate

 

Bee Lynn

 

Glenn Michael

Pee Dee EFF file

 

i just spunked in my hair again.

 

Another tragic jock thread pollutes GC as Our Boys, with the support and cheers of an empire behind it, prepare to put the underhand Croat fenians to the noble English sword.

When God gave Dev lemons, he had a party.

#dev killed er at lemon party

 

He called Scottish power when I worked for them. I gave him no cuttings and he said, do you know who I am

Aul’ Prîck.

 

Alien concept to huns.

 

I feel your pain...https://www.not606.com/threads/englaaaaand.363974/

 

It's ok Dev, once we've won it I'm sure we can come up to you boys and give you a damn good thrashing. That's what we actually mean by "it's coming home". Bit like your dad when he was boss and you'd wet the bed, you knew when he came home you'd get a good whipping. Be afraid mate, it's coming home

 

Oh really. A damn good thrashing like you gave us the last time you won it?

#shownyourplacenigel

 

stop living in the past fella

 

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*Allan

 

There is no device known to mankind capable of measuring the epic beel eminating from Dev the traitor to Queen and country.

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssssss

 

Don't shoot the messenger Nigel.

 

I wonder if the hacks have already lined up the headlines for tomorrow if England doesn't win (or is that don't win?) tonight? It will either be something along the lines of "our brave lads" if we go out fighting or miss out on penalties but if someone like Raheem Stirling does an epic f.uck up it will probably be more like "drugged up Terry ruins the party for the nation"

I'm sure I read that England had something like a 9% chance of winning the World Cup when it started, those journos are going to have to sharpen their pencils for superlatives if it does indeed 'come home'.