Football's coming home - or maybe it was here all along. For centuries, those south of the border have laid claim to England being the founding place of the beautiful game. Now a football ...

A sports historian who has long argued that Scotland, not England, is the birthplace of football now claims to have discovered the world’s oldest known football pitch - and it's north of the border.

A LEADING sports historian has claimed to have found the world's oldest known football pitch on a former 17th century farm in the south of Scotland -- proving that organised games have been played ...

I have always thought football has been played in Scotland for hundreds of years. Not mob-football, but proper football.” Lab tests of soil from the field confirmed that the rocks were placed ...

Mr O'Brien, whose discovery was revealed on BBC Scotland's 'A View From The Terrace', said: 'I have always thought football has been played in Scotland for hundreds of years. 'Not mob-football ...

"I have always thought football has been played in Scotland for hundreds of years. Not mob-football, but proper football," Mr O'Brien told BBC. There are earlier recorded football matches than the ...

Now a football historian believes the origins of the world's most popular sport could lie in Scotland. Ged O'Brien is convinced an outraged minister banned matches from being played in his parish ...