World Cup Willys…
#35
Scotland
Co-creators (…along with their Southern cousins, of course…) of the ‘Fitba ’, 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 at the…
‘Mon the Scots!
…West of Scotland Cricket Ground...
“…Oh, Flower of Scotland…
…when will we see…
—Oooo…
a flippin’…
…GOAL!
—Ha, Ha!
Not today, sorry to say & International Football shall have to wait four more months for it’s principle strike… England v Scotland, 1873…Cometh, Sooneth…
—Why, 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 !
(…alternatively…)
Couldn’t hit a…
I say, I say, I say!
What is a cow’s favourite day of the year..?
—Why…
MOO Years Eve, of course !
COW’S BACKSIDE
with a…
…blinkin’…
…BANJO!
Yes, it’s true…
…Somehow, a Match with a grand total of 15 Forwards on the field, somehow manages to find itself finishing a fairly feeble…
0-0
Scotland
England
Matches Played…
116
41 Wins
175 Goals
Biggest
7-2
(1878)
Wins 49
Goals 206
Biggest
9-3
(1961)
The 4,000 fools-most-hardy may not have witnessed 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, highly ubiquitous…
Overhead-Kick
…courtesy of the Country’s most venerable Footballing Institution…
Queen’s Park’s…
“brilliant dribbling artist…”
