Club Atletico Douglas Haig is a football club in the Argentine third level from the very northern, Buenos Aires suburb of Pergamino. It was founded in 1918 by a group of "British" workers from the Argentine Central Railway, but note, its southern section. It was and is not an off-shoot of Rosario Central but a separate entity that emerged when in 1908 the Central Argentine Railway acquired the Buenos Aires and Rosario line and the Pergamino complex with it, which with the end of The Great War was restocking with imported personnel. And it also received a new General Manager, Ronald Leslie, whose name immediately suggested a Scot, a possibly active player and perhaps connection with the founding Leslies of Argentine football a generation earlier.

But sadly both the middle and last and possibilities proved obviously incorrect and the first partially so. Ronald Leslie had been born in 1877 so by 1918 was aged forty and unlikely to have been still pulling on the boots, although he might well have in his youth. Moreover, that childhood and youth had been in England, in Alton in Hampshire. So why the Leslie name. And here is the twist. His father, Edward, a surgeon, had also been born in Alton but his grandfather, Lewis, a surgeon too, had come South, from Banff. Ronald Leslie was a Diasporan, who seems also to have wanted to be a doctor, had failed, getting only a Bachelor of Arts at Cambridge, become a Railway Officer, married in Alton in 1906 having moved to Derby to work for the Midland Railway only then making the move to South America. And there he remained for a decade or so until by at least 1938 a return to the UK.

And as to the name Douglas Haig. Leslie had decided that his employees' new club be called for the victorious commander of the British forces in the previous four years of European carnage, with Haig himself, of course, being Edinburgh-born.