The contactpaf's Podcast

Renton's Thimble St.

Simultaneously in 1888 and from a single, tiny street in the Dunbartonshire village of Renton came three of Scotland's most important internationals, two more major players in England, one perhaps the best ever not to play for his homeland, and two of their footballing sibling. The street is still there, suitably called then and now Thimble and this is its story.  

Bo'ness Podcast - Ramsays and Eaton, Finland and Chile

It was from Bo'ness that first a couple emigrated to Chile, never to return, and where they had five sons, three of whom were pivotal as players, administrators and referees in football's arrival in Santiago. And it was from there too that a generation later a son of the town took not just the game but also curling to Finland and beyond.