The documentary is still available on-line; to view click here and remains probably better than a second documentary on the man first shown in 1921 and featuring the ex-Rangers player, Mark Walters. You can also watch it and make up your own mind by clicking here.

In fact that first documentary remains probably about half right, which, given that this was before the digitalisation we enjoy today of vast amounts of data and which we can now access on-line, is worthy of praise. But today we now know more and, one way or another, can and should do better.Yet we do not.

In some cases that is forgivable. Recently a play on Watson was created, was performed in Glasgow and will be in Edinburgh.It is poor on sourcing, something readily admitted by the author. But then it is also allegorical, which, except, of course, if actually believed as a true represenation of the story, renders it fine. However, the same largesse should not be extended elsewhere, first specifically with regard to the real Watson story and then beyond that the stories now of the re-discovery of somethings as and perhaps still more important, that of how modern Association football came out of Scotland and then how Scots were largely responsible for taking it, their it round the World.  

And this situation of a far greater availability of knowledge of Watson has a corrolary, a repetition in the telling, or rather the previous telling of Scottish Football History more generally. It too suffers too from poor , in this case even biased sourcing and therefore being only part right. 

A New History of Scottish Football