Emilio and Cristian take direct action

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FORMER Celtic defender Emilio Izaguirre has revealed he is studying to be a sports director once he hangs up his boots, alongside another ex-Hoops full-back, Cristian Gamboa.

The 34-year-old Honduran defender is out of contract at homeland club Motagua but wants to keep playing for another five years.

And he’s already decided what to do after linking up with Gamboa, who was at Parkhead with Izaguirre before moving to Bochum in Germany.

Izaguirre said: “I am currently studying at the Johan Cryuff Institute and I’m doing a nine-month course involving sports directorship.

“It was actually Cristian who got me interested in this while we were both at Celtic.”

THE most famous toe-poke in Scottish football history didn’t just rile up the Brazilians. The response to David Narey’s sensational strike against the samba stars had Jock Stein raging as well.

Jimmy Hill had the chin – but the BBC pundit put the Scotland manager’s nose out of joint.

Narey’s sublime goal put the Scots ahead in Spain and earned a place in World Cup folklore before the South Americans ran riot in reply.

But it was Hill’s claim that the Dundee United’s blast was simply a toe-poke that stuck – and stuck in the throat of Stein.

The legendary boss was fuming when he heard about the commentary and banned the Beeb man from the Scotland camp. He also used the slight against his men as a distraction from the doing in the press and motivation for the troops going into the final match against the Soviet Union.

But Hill was never forgiven by the Tartan Army – or the Scotland squad – for daring to dismiss one of our greatest moments.

Alan Rough said: “Jimmy was never the most popular of figures with the Scotland fans even before then.

“He always seemed to have something to say about us and maybe it was a good thing for him Jock banned him from the camp.

“The whole toe- poke thing was a bit of a nonsense – Davie’s goal was a bit special. Up until that point there was a sense they were biding their time. They were playing at a comfortable pace but Davie’s goal fired them up.

“I don’t know if it got them angry but they just stepped up another level.”

The omens weren’t great in Seville as Scotland geared up to take on the most feared side on the planet.

Stein’s side looked like they’d stepped out of a sauna even before kick-off while the Brazilians were ice cool.

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Narey’s sublime opener was just the warm-up act for the samba show that followed as the South Americans put us to the sword.

Rough said: “That Brazil team was incredible, with guys like Zico, Falcao, Socrates and Eder. A few years earlier people said they had a dodgy defence but that side had everything.

“We were more focused on the New Zealand and USSR games, as we knew it was going to be tough to get anything out of that game. It turned out that way.

“We were up against it right from the start. The thing I remember was the heat that night. It must have been 100 degrees.

“The lads were sweating buckets in the

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BY MICHAEL GANNON warm-up and their training gear was drenched when we got back in to the changing room. You’d think we’d already played 90 minutes. “But you looked at the Brazilians and there wasn’t a bead of sweat on them. Even walking out in the tunnel, we were soaking with sweat and they looked like they were out for a stroll on the Copacabana Beach.” It was Scotland who got hit by wave after wave in the wake of the opener. The curling Zico free-kick. Oscar’s bullet header. That jaw-dropping chip by Eder. Falcao lashing one in off the post at the end. It was picture postcard stuff from the game’s great entertainers. Rough said: “The goals were incredible. We’d been in Brazil the year before and Zico scored a free-kick that night as well. “But we had been watching them and someone produced a dossier and it said when it came to free-kicks, it would be Elder, Junior or Socrates taking it. “They were all standing around the ball but Zico just stepped out of nowhere and stuck it in the corner. It was right in at the post. “I wasn’t expecting him to hit it but even if I did, there was no chance that I was stopping it. “Elder’s goal was something else. As a keeper, you are always told, don’t get done at you near post. You narrow the angle but you don’t expect anyone to be able to chip it like that to the far post.

“It was out of this world. They were doing things no other players were capable of doing.”

Stein saved his rage for Hill but his players escaped his wrath. The Celtic great said afterwards: “It will be good for soccer if they win it. It is never easy to accept defeat but this one is different.”

His words were not just for the assembled scribes.

Rough said: “He didn’t have any complaints afterwards, there was no ranting or raving. He knew the Brazilians were a top side and the Russia game was the vital game for us.”

Scotland’s World Cup was fated to end in the group stages again after the final match was drawn 2-2 and there was a sense of what might have been.

Rough said: “I remember looking down the line before the New Zealand game and there must have been about half a dozen European trophy winners alongside me. That was an incredible group of players we had then.”

Zico 33, Oscar 48, Eder 65, Falcao 87

SCOTLAND: Rough, Gray, Hansen, Miller, Narey, Hartford, Robertson, Souness (capt), Strachan, Wark, Archibald. Subs: Dalglish, McLeish. BRAZIL: Waldir Peres, Junior, Leandro, Luizinho, Oscar, Falcao, Socrates (capt), Cerezo, Zico, Eder, Serginho. Subs: Paulo Isidoro.

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