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The discovery of a 17th-century “foot-ball” pitch in Scotland would relocate the birthplace of the modern game.

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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.

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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 ...

Steve: I thought that was it for the rest of Scottish women's football when Celtic and Rangers ... He adds that Hibs have been "flag bearers" in the league for the past couple of decades so ...

A field in the Scottish countryside near the Solway Firth was likely the world’s oldest football pitch, a historian has claimed. The farmland near Anwoth Kirk in modern-day Dumfries and Galloway ...