The football was found behind paneling in the Queen's bedchamber in Stirling Castle which was decorated in the 1540s...[...more]
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Blyth Spirit
Campbell Brodie
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Come to Stirling and hold the world's oldest football
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Blyth Spirit-
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Been to Stiling, sister got married there for a reason I couldn't fathom.
Her better half ( matter of opinion) is from Dunblane.
Get this :
She's from Northumberland and lived in Cheltenham.
He is from Dunblane and lived in Taunton
They met in Bristol
So they go married in Stirling and had the reception in Taunton 2 days later !!!!
Now got 2 kids both with Scottish names Brodie & Alba, but there English she insists.
Nowt against you good folk but just don't get all her giving in to all things tartan.!
Her better half ( matter of opinion) is from Dunblane.
Get this :
She's from Northumberland and lived in Cheltenham.
He is from Dunblane and lived in Taunton
They met in Bristol
So they go married in Stirling and had the reception in Taunton 2 days later !!!!
Now got 2 kids both with Scottish names Brodie & Alba, but there English she insists.
Nowt against you good folk but just don't get all her giving in to all things tartan.!
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love the names
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Mermaid wrote:love the names
You bloody well better! It's our surname!
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Alba !
Campbell Brodie-
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t'other one...Blyth Spirit wrote:Alba !
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I think the Basques have something similar in some museum or other.
Not really a "football" to be honest is it?...when the game we know as football didn't even excist.
Not really a "football" to be honest is it?...when the game we know as football didn't even excist.
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CaribeCelt wrote:I think the Basques have something similar in some museum or other.
Not really a "football" to be honest is it?...when the game we know as football didn't even excist.
The first golf balls were leather skins stuffed with feathers and stitched, they were called featheries, for obvious reasons. Looked nothing like a modern golf ball but that's what they were.
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I get what your saying....but,children were probably throwing them about with their hands,kicking it and all sorts...it aint a football,imo.
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Looks more like a baseball to be honest...
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Its a Haggis
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Mcqueen wrote:Its a Haggis
Haha! Maybe that's what it is!
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Mcqueen wrote:Its a Haggis
You've unravelled the mystery mate
All joke on the side,It looks kike a sliotar.....hurling ball.
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Hurley ball above.
Football my arse....they were playing Gaelic games
The Lone Ranger wrote:Looks more like a baseball to be honest...
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The Lone Ranger wrote:The football was found behind paneling in the Queen's bedchamber in Stirling Castle which was decorated in the 1540s...[...more]
What???? They are only getting round to painting it again now??