Scotland Retro Shirts

The Scottish national side are the joint oldest international team in the world, alongside England. The two teams played the worlds first international match on the 30th November 1872 at West of Scotland Cricket Club’s ground at Hamilton Crescent in Partick. The match was watched by over 4000 fans and ended in a 0-0 draw.

All 11 Scottish players were selected from the popular Queens Park Football Club in Glasgow, and the Scottish players wore the Dark Blue shirts of Queens Park for the match. The dark blue has been worn by the Scottish national side ever since. The match itself was a strange affair, England played the match with two defenders and eight forwards! The English goalkeeper also played outfield during match after swapping positions with William Maynard. Scotland came closest to winning the match, they had a goal disallowed in the first half and hit the tape (the crossbar hadn’t been invented yet!) in the last minutes of the game.

From these early internationals to the world cup finals Scotland have been involved in some classic games over the years. One of Scotland’s most memorable victories came against the old enemy and then world champions England at Wembley in 1967. Goals from Denis Law, Bobby Lennox and Jim McCalliog sent the traveling Tartan army into a frenzy.

In 1978 Scotland travelled to Argentina for the World Cup finals.  After a poor campaign, Scotland were determined to go out with a bang, and they did just that in an epic match with eventually finalist Holland. Kenny Dalglish cancelled out Rob Rensenbrink’s opener before midfielder Archie Gemmill struck twice, including his famous dribble around the entireDutch defence.

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