Fir Parkers in South America: "Teachers Being Taught"

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Title

Fir Parkers in South America: "Teachers Being Taught"

Subject

Coverage of Motherwell's trip to South America

Description

Perhaps the most extensive report from Scotland in the Motherwell Times. It offers a synopsis of the English-language press in Buenos Aires (presumably from the Buenos Aires Herald), which takes issue with manager John "Sailor" Hunter's supposed remark to the local press that the Scots had come to Argentine to "to teach" the locals how to play football, and then promotly losing their first games in South America. The reader notes that the Argentine press has exhausted every possible headline about the Scots as "teachers" who were schooled by their "pupils." Perhaps the most interesting aspect of this report is that it explains how locals expected much more from Motherwell after disappointing performances by Exeter City, Plymouth, and Third Lanark. After all, Motherwell arrived having finished third in the Scottish league behind Celtic and Rangers and were expected to salvage the reputation of British football, which teams like Everton and Tottenham established when they visited Argentina in the early 1900s. The Scots in Argentina were particulary embarrassed by Motherwell's first games (suggesting, toungue-in-cheek, that they might take their holidays sooner to avoid ridicule by co-workers).

Source

Page 5

Publisher

The Motherwell Times

Date

15-Jun-1928

Contributor

The British Newspaper Archive

Format

Digital Archive

Language

en

Type

text

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Citation

“Fir Parkers in South America: "Teachers Being Taught",” Animales: Civilization and Barbarism in Argentine Soccer, accessed March 29, 2024, https://animales.rwanysibaja.com/items/show/3315.

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