The Euro Diary: Emma Hayes has rightly emerged as the UK's favourite pundit of Euro 2020
05-Jul-2021 07:00:00 | Herald Scotland
It's common knowledge that the world's oldest football was found inside the panels of the Queen's Chamber in Stirling Castle. It's also a well-established fact that the oldest organised football club was founded by Edinburgh student John Hope in 1824. Known simply as The Foot-Ball Club, Hope's team pre-dates the attempts to codify the rules of association football in the 1840s at places such as Rugby School and the formation of Sheffield FC in 1857 (Scotland’s oldest still in existence is Edinburgh's Academical Football Club, also established in 1857).
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