2 of 4 One game amongst many. Why did we create a mural for 1882 on the back wall of the now defunct Hampden Bowling Club? It was played in the world’s first purpose built national stadium. It was arranged by the Scottish Football Association - note the word. No ‘FA’ #EnglishExceptionalism here.

How would English people understand them if they hadn't?

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How Brexit dismantled the English emigrants’ dream

There, fixed it for them.

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Who invented football - the story of the beautiful game from China to England The inside story of who invented football - it's more complicated than you think and dates back far further than you may have thought it would

1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball One of the things I am keen to publicise is #EnglishExceptionalism That media trope where England invented Football because - well - just because. Here is a cracker from Fionn Shiner tinyurl.com/ycfmf9se Daily Mirror 13th July 2021 ‘Who Invented Football?’

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4 of 5 Thereafter we get the usual... England. 1800s. Cambridge Uni. Sheffield Rules. 1863. What intrigues me is how the Scots fought off any idea of a structured game with rules/laws until the world was created in 1863 /s This #EnglishExceptionalism has poisoned the History Well for 100 years.

”Powerful, beautiful thread about the privilege of being part of the (imperfect) #EU community.”

#Brexit
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Well … hard for the rest of the world to resist a big I told you so.
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Time for the English to beg for forgiveness. But will they? Can they?
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3 of 4 Sheffield were the pre-eminent football area in England, with the widest and deepest footballing reach. They were better than the small group of poshies with their #EnglishExceptionalism Glasgow’s strip? Blue shirts with a rampant lion. Factually it was a regional code v a national game.

4 of 4 So what? Charles Miller has the least impressive history of anyone - yet is claimed as the father of Brazilian football - due to #EnglishExceptionalism You may recall Archie McLean shunning SPAC and Miller’s posh white pals for Americano founded by Brazilians. ARE YOU SEEING IT YET?

”only Libs” 🙄

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”Powell was arguing for a certain idea of England, its timeless excep- tionalism which must not be lost, subsumed in a European super-state. A strangely blinkered world view.”

#IslandOfStrangers
#LittleEngland
#MakeBrexitWork
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5 of 5 So what? #EnglishExceptionalism has spent 150 years working hard to erase the Celts/Picts/Norse people of Scotland from any history of THEIR game. The game they invented. It is our duty to change the narrative by simply using Scottish facts. Stand proud and pass the ball #scotchprofessor

So kind of these English racists trying to involve the Irish in their fascism. While Orangemen have always been persuaded to support English nationalism, their actions continue to be like the unrolling of an ancient mummy: all smelly old bones and rotten rags.
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British = toxic soup

That’s the kernel of the problem.
All the toxic British Nationalist politicians are only a reflection of the poisonous nature of ”Britishness” itself.
#Britishness
#EnglishExceptionalism
#BritishNationalism
#FarRight

5 of 5 So what? Scottish clubs were run by people unlikely to bow to the #EnglishExceptionalism and class based nonsense of the English Rugby Union. Scottish private schools were not obviously different to England’s oddly named ‘public’ schools. Football was the game of the Scottish people.

3 of 5 As a DIFFERENT AND SEPARATE NATION the SFA were able to force England to the table and get laws which where agreed by ALL 4 nations in 1886. They pulled exactly this stunt in Rugby, so 3 nations founded the IRFB in 1887. England only joined in 1890. Have a nice plate of #EnglishExceptionalism

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5 of 5 So what? Yes - I have the zeal of the religious convert and yes I am happy to admit my woeful ignorance pre-1990. We can all change and tell others. Therefore, spread these terms far and wide #scotchprofessor #scotsfoundedfootball #EnglishExceptionalism Logic. Science. Combination.

1 of 4 #scotsfoundedfootball Billy Wright’s autobiography. ‘Captain of England’ was published in 1950 after the 1-0 defeat to the USA in the Brazil World Cup. p. 181 “To be beaten by the United States at football was like the MCC being beaten by Germany at cricket!” #EnglishExceptionalism

5 of 5 So what? The (London) Football Association was founded in 1863 to a resounding meh! Only #EnglishExceptionalism and Anglo-propaganda has turned it into something it is not. The DNA of football runs through QPFC, Killie, Vale of Leven, Renton and into the history of the Nation.

Inside the dirtiest race in Olympic history: ‘It wasn’t fair. I wasn’t on a level playing field’ How did the women’s 1500m in the 2012 London Olympics get its unenviable reputation? Athletes who were cheated out of medals talk about what happened that day – and how the results have slowly unravel...

Foreign drug cheats: bad.
English drug cheats: nothing to see here.
#EnglishExceptionalism
#Hypocrisy

Anyone else fecked off with the Labour Propaganda from @skynewsrss.bsky.social with their periodical (15mns interval) of the IMPORTING of cooking coal & Iron ore needed to keep Scunthorpe steel works afloat?
#MediaBias #LabourPropaganda #EnglishExceptionalism

1 of 5 #scotsfoundedfootball Back to Brian Glanville’s ’Soccer: A Panorama’ publ. 1969 Another myth that gets pushed as part of #EnglishExceptionalism is the one that Brits (for which read English) were the fairest and most sporting people on the planet. Self-definition is always dodgy.