James Delaney discusses how Ged O'Brien, a football historian, proposes that Scotland may be the true origin of football, based on an event in the 1600s. Reverend Samuel Rutherford's actions in Kirkcudbrightshire, where he banned parishioners from playing football on Sundays, are highlighted as significant evidence. Archaeologists, working with O'Brien, unearthed a line of stones believed to mark the area where football was played, suggesting that organized football existed in Scotland long before its modern conception. This could lead to a reevaluation of football's early history in the UK.
Ged O'Brien is convinced that an outraged minister banned football matches in his Kirkcudbrightshire parish in the 1600s, which predates modern football's history.
Rutherford was dismayed to find a piece of ground on Mossrobin Farm used for football on Sundays, leading him to set stones to stop the matches.
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