Imagine World football without, for all its faults the Argentine game. But that could have been the way without the "cled", the twenty-one Scots who took the game to that country, nurtured it through frankly a struggle to lay seed and then literally passed it to the other immigrant masses that were reaching it shores.    

Modern Argentina might try to to tell it another way but without specifically the Scottish working-class passion for the round-ball game it could have a different story - perhaps an English one, with cricket in the summer and the oval ball for the winter. Indeed if you know your South American history it almost was. 

And here perhaps is another surprise. Organised football first came to the western bank of the River Plate not to Buenos Aires but its second city, Rosario, and not from Glasgow or even Edinburgh but The Highlands, indeed largely from Dingwall.