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A field in the Scottish countryside near the Solway Firth was likely the world’s oldest football pitch, a historian has claimed.
The field was hosting football games in the 1600s, nearly two centuries before rules for the sport were laid out for the first time in England.
Sports historian Ged O’Brien pointed to a letter written by one Reverend Samuel Rutherford in the early 1600s stating that “people used to play football” at the ground on Sabbath afternoon.
The reverend, seemingly angry that frequent football games on the field were disrupting the Sabbath, ordered parishioners to place large stones on the pitch to stop them.
The rocks – some still there today – were laid across the ground as a temporary barrier to stop people playing football, Mr O’Brien noted.
“This is one of the most important sentences I have ever read in football history,” he told The Times. “Because it…
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