Something you completely overlooked is the rules of the game. The rules by which we play the game today are the Glasgow rules. Very little has changed in the rules since the 1870's. So it can still be argued that Scotland has given the world the modern game.

You missed the Scotsman who took the "modern" game to Brazil.

William Mcgregor created the first professional league in England,a Scot. The first professionally paid player was a Glaswegian.

As a football history nerd i really appreciate this channel

Given that the site calls itself 'Sheffield the home of football' I think someone is having a larf. 😊😊

It's called the Andy Murray syndrome! When he loses a game of tennis he's Scottish but when he wins he's British 😂

Scotland invented Football although in England they say they did but again they would not say different . Was invented in Scotland .

It was the highland clans that used to play each other. Invented the passing game well before the 1800s

I'll tell you this for nowt: if we Scots did invent the game, it's pretty evident on tonight's debacle in Munich, that we've completely forgotten how to play it!

Another interesting video! It would be good to see a whole video just on that Netflix show to see what is accurate and what is fiction!!

We did invent football, I truly believe but just like the King Arthur legend who was Scottish too, it was an idea stolen by the Ebglish. You might have the oldest formulated clubs but the oldest football dating back to 1540 can be found in Stirling and cost King Jame's IV two shillings but we were playing it long before that when King James actually felt the need to outlaw the game through an Act of Parliament called the Football Act 1424. This stupid law forbid Scots from participating in the game we invented at the risk of a 4 pence fine until it was eventually repelled in 1906. We invented it, England perfected it and created structure and rules, as they.do in the process of thieving it.

Very interesting viewpoints, and even if I don't agree with it all, thanks for coming to Scotland to see for yourself. Surprised that you say just two players from the Vale of Leven area went south as professionals before 1890, there were actually quite a few. Of the Scotland internationalists, ie better quality players, you could mention Sandy McLintock, Johnny Forbes, Jimmy Cowan and John Murray (all Vale of Leven); George Dewar, Alex Latta, John Madden and Peter Miller (all Dumbarton); Bob Kelso, Andy Hannah, John Lindsay and Duncan McLean (all Renton).

As I always understood it, there were two sets of rules that developed at the same time, the Scottish rules and the English rules. And they were very different sets of rules. And as I understand, the rules that we play now are an evolution of the Scottish rules, the English game went extinct. It’s a bit like the English claim that they invented Baseball, just because they invented rounders. In saying that, I stand to be wrong. I haven’t done the research you have done here (although I don’t have a KZfaq channel name that influences my opinion either). But the aggregate of what I have seen and read suggests that Association Football is the Scottish game that Queens Park played, and the game that Sheffield used to play went extinct when that rule set died out.

Scotland also invented the Boomerang .

Brilliant video. The West of Scotland has a massive Scots-Italian Community. Playing a positive role in the game. Including having fish and chip wagons at grounds a century ago. Many of these families come from Tuscany. Scotland only changed the game. Football goes back to the Greeks. A form of game still played today in Firenze is "Calcio storici fiorentino". One of it's most famous players was Pope Clement VII. This means wee Phil at Ibrox isnae the first Clement to be famous in football. Of course this point also highlights the problems Scotland has brought to the game. This will bring a good source of banter to Celtic fans who follow our club motto of "know your history". For some it will mean banter of "God Bless Pope Phil Clement VIII - the orange heathen"

Every single player in Liverpool FCs first side where Scots, they were known as "the team of macs" also almost every major club in England had several Scots in their teams a situation that continued right through the 1920s and 1930s indeed Scottish players were so different and exotic they were regarded as indispensable. Sorry but Sheffield rules had players catching the ball with their hands (Gaelic Football) and the Scots stopped that, throw ins were invented here and the modern passing game stop being so ungrateful.

You did your best to discredit the Scottish side of the discussion but as my dad (a Yorkshire man would always say) there two sides to an argument and the truth is in the middle somewhere there's so much you never mentioned as well but hay so what a mentione of Andrew Watsons story would have been great but look it up your self its very interesting.

Think the real question is who invented Kirby

Reading the comments it seems like a fairly divisive topic 😂

2nd Hampden amazing.

The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. When it comes to history it usually is.

Yes

The public schoolboys of England may have codified the game (they certainly didn't invent it) "Scotland, once essentially the land of football" Charles Alcock 1872

I've watched a couple of other video's that claimed crossbars,corner flags and half time originated in Scotland. Was expecting that to be debunked as well.

The Scottish Cup is the oldest trophy in all of sport, not just football. Enough said!

Yes and No. England invented the modern football rules, but Scotland invented passing and the way the game is played these days. Both countries are responsible for the game we all know and love.

Great set of comments guys, really enjoyed reading them all. Thank you. At the end of the day you have to take the view that nobody completely invented modern football. We can of course discount anything not related to the modern form of the game we call association football, but understand that game we love had various influences. Early rules being spread by Cambridge students, innovators in London & Glasgow and pioneers of the professional league system in the midlands and north east of England. What I believe we can argue is that many of the parts of the game we now call modern association football did originate from one northern town that had by 1875 48% of all the clubs in the world at that point (178), multiple world firsts (clubs, matches, grounds, tournaments, passing reports, rules etc..) but only 1% of the population of the country. This concentration of footballing activity makes Sheffield the only place that can actually make the claim to be the 'home of football' 'the first city of football'. This is NOT a ridiculous claim. Football was not completely invented in Sheffield or anywhere for that matter, but it is the city, the place on the planet that had the biggest influence on the games development and if you now your history, you will know that the game of association football would not even exist today without Sheffield's influence, especially during the 1860's (look up William Chesterman). The rules your team plays by today are an amalgamation of both FA & Sheffield rules dating back to actual full codification in 1877. Yes Sheffield had an early fair catch rule but its lack of offside made it the closet game of all the early rules (FA's included) to today's game. Gaelic football it certainly was not. This game had passing from at least 1861. Your team, whoever they are owes at least a small nod to Sheffield no matter how hard some try to resit bending their necks. Go on, try it. Nod.

Scotland invented hockey too. But the Canadians made it their craft and pastime

Scotland invented england monetised

How can half of Preston be Scots and the other halves be English and Welsh ?

The pump up the park more like,

We invented it and longshanks banned it . Enter Sir William Wallace Guardian of Scotland 😅

Of course .. like golf, bowls, curling and just about everything else useful to humanity. Indeed an American academic recently wrote a book claiming that Scotland invented the modern world. Not much left for any other nation to boast about then .. ? 🤣

Yes Scotland invented the modern game via Queens Park the early English Football was a kind of Rugby.

Yes it was Scotland

Actually the oldest football was played in the north east of Scotland in the 13th century. Two teams passed the ball between team members and scored goals. But yer English so of course that will not be valid either.

engerland invents everything before anyone! engerlish are the best at everything! Freedom!!!

Bloody Jocks! They'll be claiming the invention of that mystical brew Henderson's Relish next... or might that be the Chinese?

Why not ,we invented everything else 😂

The Chinese. Then England invented the modern game with the first FA.

We'll just forget queens park had the first season tickets or the first black international player played for us or Brazil or even Argentina who say Scotland invented the game. Typical cherry pick, so called facts from a English man who's source literally is the English fa book of facts. So called British history is full of it like Scotland is older than England. We also have scara brey which is older than stone henge. Go on and buy a book on british history apparently we don't have any until England came along.

We might have invented it but we are not very good at it

i hope not

No they didn’t…..Ireland did!……..😂🇨🇮✌🏻

Bollocks. Scotland invested modern football, because Scotland invented the telly. End of, pal! See ye later.

So the answer is Britain 🎉

I think the author of this video doth protest too much. Just another in a long line of Englishman trying to rewrite history.