World Cup Willys…
#35
Scotland
Co-creators (…along with their Southern cousins, of course…) of the alleged ‘Beautiful Game’, in the November of 1872 the Scots play host to their southern cousins International Football’s first official encounter in front of 4,000 hardy souls or so…
…‘mon the Scots!
…over at the West of Scotland Cricket Ground at Partick...
—Oh, Flower of Scotland…
—Oooo…
…when will we see…
a bloody…
…GOAL!
Not today, sorry to say & International Football shall have to wait a whole year for it’s principle strike… England v Scotland, 1873…
—Ha, Ha!
—Ye couldnae connect an adult bovine male’s exterior portions utilizing a four stringed instrument incorporating a thin membrane stretched over a circular frame or cavity to form a resonator !
Couldn’t hit a…
…or…
…COW’S BACKSIDE…
with…
…a BANJO!
Yes, it’s true…
…Somehow, a Match with 15 Forwards on the field in total manages to find itself finishing…
0-0
The Scots
The English
Matches Played 116
175 Goals
41 Wins
Biggest
7-2
(1878)
Goals 206
Wins 49
Biggest
9-3
(1961)
The 4,000 fools-most-hardy may not have seen an actual Goal that day but could consider themselves rather jammy, however, find themselves being treated to the very first sighting of the, by now, quite ubiquitous…
Overhead-Kick
…courtesy of the Country’s most venerable Footballing Institution…
Queen’s Park’s…
“brilliant dribbling artist…”
‘Bicycle-Kickin’…
Billy MacKinnon
Scotland’s…
World Cup Report…
Tournaments : 7
26 5 7 14 13 29 22
P W D L G+ G- Pts
Finest Finish : 9th
(1974)
World Cup Rating…
D
D for dreadful, we’re sorry to say- Given the extra-ordinary innovations & sheer wealth of talent the Scots have brought to the game, they really should be doing so, SO much better…
