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The Scotch Professors: How Scotland Gave Football to the World

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PUBLISHER: Luath Press

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781912147465

RRP: £12.99

PAGES: 224

PUBLICATION DATE:
May 15, 2018

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The Scotch Professors: How Scotland Gave Football to the World

John Cairney

Cairney tells stories that relate to every football fan: A few Glaswegians spending every Saturday (their day-off) in Queen’s Park playing `foot ball’ and eventually founding the first football club of Scotland, a club that exists to this day.The Scotch Professors takes you back to simpler time, where only six rules were to follow on a football field and the crossbar was just a string. Where a small Scottish football club was recognised as the `World Champion’, as they were the Scottish Cup Winners and won the game against the English Cup Winners, the only other country that had football clubs.Cairney invites you to explore the roots and history of football, the important role Scotland had in all of it (and still has today) as well as the passion shared by so many people all around the globe.

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John Cairney

John Cairney is an actor, writer, lecturer, recitalist, director and theatre consultant, football fan and most recently, has exhibited as a painter. In a career that spans over half a century, John Cairney has performed in nearly every media, including television, theatre film and radio.John Cairney is well known to audiences in Scotland and internationally through his one-man shows about Burns. Indeed, in many minds he is synonymous with the Bard and is considered as one of the leading interpreters of the works of Robert Burns.Cairney gained a PhD from Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand, and has travelled internationally as a lecturer, writer and consultant. He has written books on each of these famous Scots, as well as on football, theatre and his native Glasgow, where he now lives with his New Zealand wife, actress and scriptwriter, Alannah O’Sullivan.