A sports historian behind the claims that Scotland invented football says he has found the world’s oldest known pitch there. Ged O’Brien, who has campaigned for years for England to be ...

Discovery of world’s oldest football pitch in Scotland changes everything we knew about game, historian says. Findings predate founding of Football Association by centuries and could explain ...

The discovery of a 17th-century “foot-ball” pitch in Scotland would relocate the birthplace of the modern game. By Franz Lidz Since the mid-19th century, England has been widely accepted as ...