Today is the 150th anniversary of the World's first international football match - Scotland v England - played on St. Andrew's Day 1872... England v Scotland Full International Record & Statistics 1872-2013
140th And I believe I've had a kickabout on that very spot (whilst mad wi' it). It is where the Partick cricket ground is now, isn't it?
In that case, I have had a kickabout there in the glistening early morning sunrise light whilst chemically altered Rangers used to train there too before they built Auchenhowie.
it was a cricket ground then too! I use to live overlooking it. Although that was sometime after the match took place.
My Killie-supporting drummer lived in a student flat overlooking it when she was at uni. Me n a few lads crashed there one night when we were fleeing - said drummer wasn't amused. We took her flatmate's baw out at about four in the morning for a game of seven by