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The next manager instead of the usual squadron of backroom hangers on will have to bring at least fifteen players with hm.

That’s been a problem for a long time. New captain might help but who? The new Dutch guy who doesn’t get picked?

I’m supposed to record my blood pressure just now. I think I’ll wait until well after the final whistle to avoid anomalies.

Aye but the Lord doth other things too.

Tomorrow is last chance for Rangers. If they can’t stir themselves to win, they deserve nothing.

True but the relevant fact is that he missed the chance.

Euro cup final.

Of those I saw play at an age when I was competent to make my own judgement rather than rely on what my big brother said, Baxter, Law, Smith (Hibs) Dalglish, Caldow.

Aye. Better than Smith, more solid than Rough without Rough’s ability to make the occasional impossible save. Can’t remember what he was like at saving penalties but he was good at taking them. Absolutely.

Kent has more than one position. Maybe he just wasn’t playing well enough.

Here are the Scotsman readers’ twenty best uncapped Scottish footballers. Andy Ritchie, Morton. Chic Charnley, Thistle. John McMaster, Aberdeen. Neale Cooper, Aberdeen. Gordon Wallace, Dundee. Craig Brewster, Dundee Utd. Bobby Russell, Rangers. John Brown, Rangers. Alex Rae, Sunderland. John McGovern, Forest. Alan Gordon, Heart, Hibs. Kevin McAllister, Falkirk/Hibs. Alex Edwards, Dunfermline/Hibs Bobby Cox, Dundee. Stephen Dobbie, QoS. Hamish McAlpine, Dundee Utd. Ralph Milne, Dundee Utd. Jim Duffy, Dundee. Billy Stark, Aberdeen. Tommy Bryceland, St Mirren. Cox, Edwards, Russell and Brown were unlucky not to be capped. Some fine players among the rest, Bryceland in particular, but mostly old-style B International material.

That team almost has a settled look about it.

Yes. So, why ditch Kent? Why did they want another foreign player instead of him? Was it because he wasn’t performing well?

Why did they want to replace him?

No.

King’s great weakness was his propensity to litigate lost causes.

And still get stung by the little beggars.

The cleverest strategist, the most astute tactician still has a pool of moderate level players from which to pick a team so a new manager is unlikely to do any better. Clark is a very suitable manager for Scotland. A greetin’ faced moaner with the capability to be smug if the occasion arises.

I don’t think McLean and Russell were unsung. McLean was compared unfavourably with his illustrious outside right predecessors in his early days until we ignorant spectators worked out what he was doing.

Captain McColl. Master wing half.

Very good player for the Hibs but even better at Liverpool.

John Little succeeded Tiger Shaw and successfully partnered George Young, Eric Caldow and Bobby Shearer. In this photo he torpedoes Paddy Buckley of Aberdeen. Tackles like that were fine in those days but pull somebody’s shirt and you got jeered off the park. Quite right too.

Willie Rae, ten years in the blue mostly an understudy to Ian McColl and Sammy Cox - thankless task - and even outside left in a winning cup final. Here he is making sure no one gets near George Niven. I think it’s Willie Bauld of the Hearts.

I thought Davie McPherson was pretty good both spells and not bad at the Hearts either.

Almost an old style wing half - Greig, McKay - with an extra touch of skill. Every Cruyff should have a Neeskens.