Special offer! To mark the bicentenary of the world's first football club, founded in Edinburgh in December 1824, the book is reduced to just £10 (inc postage) until Christmas. https://t.co/W3PN8FyGS4
**200 years of football in Edinburgh** To mark the bicentenary of the foundation of The Foot-Ball Club, I'll be giving two talks, with free admission and online. First up, 4 December at Register House in Edinburgh, hosted by National Records of Scotland: https://t.co/qw9s0jXd0s
Tragedy layered upon tragedy. How can it be that Labour still refuses to call for a ceasefire? Who - apart from the worst extremists on both sides - thinks this cruel bombardment of a captive population is achieving anything other than the death of countless innocents? #GazaWar
The people at Amazon tell me there is still time to order these books in time for Christmas! If football history is your thing, make sure you tell Santa. https://t.co/L93XAecZeF
On 7 December 1824 -199 years ago today - John Hope, a student in Edinburgh, bought a football. It was the first step to founding the world's first football club. The bicentenary year of The Foot-Ball Club is about to begin!
Good to see the Rutherglen Ladies FC exhibition at Dunblane Museum. On till the end of April, admission free (together with loads of excellent local history on display) https://t.co/EH0ea9B3lT
And if you want to read the full story of why international football started, who the players were and how they played, this book will tell you all about it: https://t.co/gF25OStxse