The BBC Radio Scotland genealogy programme Digging Up Your Roots this week will include a feature on the 1872 Scotland international William Muir Mackinnon, the man who performed the first ever overhead kick. I am interviewed about his role in 1870s football, together with his 81-year-old grandson, Bill Westwater of Dunoon, who came with his wife and son to the Scottish Football Museum to make the programme.
Mackinnon was the last survivor of the first international, having died in 1942 aged 90. Although his career was spent with Queen's Park, he was also a guest player for Rangers in the club's first ever match in 1872. When I tracked his family tree, I was astonished to find he had a grandson still alive, but he married fairly late, and so did his daughter, hence the living link.
You can hear the programme on Monday 29 April at 1.30pm on Radio Scotland, and it will also be available on i-player for a week after then at this link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s4dqs
Mackinnon was the last survivor of the first international, having died in 1942 aged 90. Although his career was spent with Queen's Park, he was also a guest player for Rangers in the club's first ever match in 1872. When I tracked his family tree, I was astonished to find he had a grandson still alive, but he married fairly late, and so did his daughter, hence the living link.
You can hear the programme on Monday 29 April at 1.30pm on Radio Scotland, and it will also be available on i-player for a week after then at this link: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01s4dqs
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