Of all the trails SFHG has developed this is  the one that combines compactness with both footballing and non-footballing interest. The countryside of North Fife is stunning. It is also circular and can be started not just from the north but the north-east from Perth, the east through Dunfermline and from the south across the Forth Bridge. If you come that way we suggest the back road from Inverkeithing to Kirkcaldy as an entry. The only downside is that it needs  a car but then that means it can be completed in a day.    

And so to the trail itself, which we are choosing for no particular to approach from Dundee and the Tay Bridge. The north of Fife produced just two international players, William Dickson, born in the fishing village of Crail, from 1886 playing for Dundee Strathmore, there winning a single cap in 1888, and Jimmy Simpson from Ladybank to Rangers via Dundee United and Scotland's centre-half for much of the 1930s. But it is worthwhile as a day-out not just for the nine others who would feature in the senior game but also the beauty of the towns and countryside, from which they emerged.