Discovery of world’s oldest football pitch in Scotland changes everything we knew about game, historian says

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, s