In fact in the case of Ghana there is little, known Scottish input but here is a correction, and some addition to present knowledge. The story from the country is that the game was brought to it in about 1903 to supplement cricket and tennis by a Mr. Briton, a teacher, and then head of the Government Boys School in the town of Cape Coast and said to be Jamaican. In fact Mr. Briton was actually Joseph Britton, Joseph Augustus Britton, who was West Indian but like Andrew Watson from Demerara in today's Guyana, had been teaching on what was then the Gold Coast since 1886, would, as a schoolmaster and a widower, in 1897 marry an Elizabeth Harrison in Accra and would, presumably to retire, leave the school in 1912.

Then came the intervention of The Great War, after which in 1919 Frederick Guggisberg was appointed Governor of the colony for the next eight years. And it was under his stewardship that, with the game having in the meantime been spread by Britton's pupils to the the capital, that in 1920 the Gold Coast Football Association, now the Ghana FA, was formed and Accra Football League founded, with the Guggisberg Shield as its major trophy.

So who was Frederick Gordon Guggisberg, later "Sir". In fact he had been Canadian-born, of Swiss and some Scots-Canadian ancestry, had arrived in Britain at the age of about ten and was a military man but as a Royal Engineer, a specialist in fortifications. So why the interest in football? He was known to be something of an athlete, including football. Indeed he was captain of the RE cricket team and in 1905 played for the MCC, and the RE, from having been a major force in early, English football from the 1860s until professionalism, still had strong, if amateur, teams. In 1908 one of them had taken the FA Amateur Cup. And his birth-place was also interesting. It was Galt in Ontario, in the heart of the area, which saw through Perthshire's David Forsyth, the "Father of Canadian Soccer" the implantation of the game in that country.