Scots invented the beautiful game

Amongst many other great inventions (click here for more) it has become apparent that football was also a Scottish invention. The fololowing was in today's The Scotsman:

Scots invented beautiful game
(EBEN HARRELL)

Newly discovered book suggests that Scots invented football.
Passage is said to describe "players passing the ball forward and attempting to score past a goalkeeper".
However, we're still not in the World Cup.

Key quote:
"The English are quick to claim they invented football. I think this book proves they didn't. Alas it is small consolation, considering we aren't in Germany to compete for the World Cup." - Alan Duncan of the Tartan Army

SCOTLAND may not be at the World Cup, but the country can at least lay claim to having invented football, following the translation of a book written almost 400 years ago.

In 1633, more than 200 years before the Football Association was formed in England, David Wedderburn, a poet and teacher at Aberdeen Grammar School, described a match in his pocket-sized tome Vocabula.

While there are older descriptions of ball games involving kicking, historians say the Scottish manuscript, written in Latin, is the first to report on players passing the ball forward and attempting to score past a goalkeeper. A section of the book marks the kick-off: "Let's pick sides. Those who are on the outside, come over here. Kick off, so that we can begin the match ... Pass it here."

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