DAY TWELVE: GREATEST
We’ve assembled Scottish football’s greatest team of the modern era... but
Jock Wallace Club
Rangers (1972 to 1978 and 1983 to 1986) Two (1976 and
Titles
1978).
JOCK WALLACE was responsible for Rangers’ most infamous defeat – his Berwick Rangers team knocked them out of the Scottish Cup in 1967.
But he had a hand in a few of their greatest achievements too. He succeeded Willie Waddell at Ibrox after the European Cup Winners’ Cup triumph in 1972, ended Celtic’s record-breaking run of nine consecutive Scottish title triumphs in 1975 and oversaw trebles in 1976 and 1978.
Brendan Rodgers and Jock Stein are the only other men to have managed a clean sweep of domestic trophies on more than one occasion.
The former King’s Own Scottish Borderer (below) was a hard taskmaster whose preseason workouts on Gullane Dunes were infamous with his players. But he was adored by his charges and they were shocked and devastated when he suddenly resigned, due to friction with the Rangers board over his budget and salary, in 1978.
Wallace returned to Ibrox in 1983 and won the League Cup twice in his second spell. But a lack of investment in the squad prevented him from landing a fourth league title. He was replaced by Graeme Souness after three years.
He remains, though, one of Rangers’ greatest and most successful modern-day managers.
Brendan Rodgers Club
Celtic (2016 to 2019) Two (2017 and 2018).
Titles
BOO! Hiss! Judas!
It’s over a year now since Brendan Rodgers sparked anger and outrage among a previously-adoring Celtic support by leaving for Leicester City. But mention of his name in the East End of Glasgow still provokes fury.
The Northern Irishman’s
Titles Jim McLean Club
Dundee United (1974 to 1993) One (1983).
WHEN the former Hamilton Academical, Clyde, Dundee and Kilmarnock inside forward Jim McLean was appointed Dundee United manager in 1974, he immediately embarked on a youth development programme that would transform the Tannadice side into one of the best in Europe not just Scotland.