The "Beautiful Game" Arrives

For football to be it is axiomatic that first the game itself has to arrive. And in that Brazil simply got lucky, Scots-lucky and twice over. The first was when the seas along its Northern Shore were cleared of Portuguese naval power by the ships of privateer, the "pirate", Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald. He had done it in the the Pacific for Chile against the Spanish. Now he replicated it for the self-proclaimed Emperor of Brazil against his own father, the King of Portugal. Brazil ceased to be a colony. But when he wasn't paid Cochrane extracted his own price. He sacked the coastal city of Sao Luis before sailing back to Britain.

It was therefore to an independent country that seventy years later more Scots arrived this time bearing a gift, or at least begin with the idea of gift, Scottish football. 

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