Scottish Football Museum: What do Robert Burns and Sevilla FC have in common?

On January 25, 2017, coinciding with the 127th anniversary of Sevilla FC (1890-2017), the Scottish Football Museum, published a fantastic article about the origins of the Andalusian club par excellence.

 

(...) Dating from 1890 Seville FC is the oldest club in Spain dedicated solely to football. A number of the Scots may have been connected to Dundee as the story of the birth of the team was reported in a local newspaper, the Dundee Courier on the 17th March 1890. An extract from one of the paragraphs in the article reads:

 

“Some six weeks ago a few enthusiastic young residents of British origin met in one of the cafés for the purpose of considering a proposal that we should start an Athletic Association, the want of exercise being greatly felt by the majority of us, who are chiefly engaged in mercantile pursuits. After a deal of talk and a limited consumption of small beer, the 'Club de Football de Sevilla' was duly formed and office-bearers elected. It was decided we should play Association rules (…) We were about half and half Spanish and British”.