About the Author

Andy Mitchell is one of Scotland's leading sports historians. Passionate about football, he has written extensively on the sport and has witnessed plenty of football history in the making: as head of communications at the Scottish Football Association, he travelled with the Scotland team from the Faroes to the Far East, and now works as a media officer for UEFA. He is distantly related to William Kenyon-Slaney, who scored England's first ever goal - against Scotland.