Football

An 8 Point Plan to Improve Scottish Football

Author / Creator: James Wilson

Media type: Article

Date published: 2026

How can we increase the standards of our national game

Football: The Sport Scotland Gave to the World

Author / Creator: Ged O’Brien

Media type: Book

Date published: 2026

Ged O’Brien argues that a game recognisable as the direct ancestor of modern football first appeared in Scotland hundreds of years before the 1860s

‘Sectarianism’ and Scottish Football: Critical Reflections on Dominant Discourse and Press Commentary

Author / Creator: John Kelly

Media type: Article

Date published: 2011

Much of the press’s treatment of sectarianism lacks sensitivity to the historical, hierarchical and relational aspects of religious, political and ethnic identities in Scotland.

The Old Divide: A History of Sectarianism in Scotland

Author / Creator: Chris Bambery

Date published: 2025

The roots of Scotland’s sectarianism problem and its toxic legacy.

Scottish football and the SFA

Author / Creator: Gerry Hassan

Media type: Opinion

Date published: 2023

The Scottish men's national football team are going places.