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Jock Stein at Dunfermline: the launch of a legend

The name of Jock Stein is lauded – and rightly so – throughout British football as one of the greatest managers of all-time. As manager of Celtic, he would accumulate 10 Scottish…

The demise of Scottish managers and brighter times ahead

FIFTY OF SO YEARS AGO, the Galapagos Giant Tortoise was a species on the brink of extinction. Human expansion, destruction of indigenous land to make way for agriculture and an amount of…

Jock Stein: the ordinary man who was anything but

This feature is part of The Masterminds “EVERY MANAGER DIES a little during a game. I’d rather die in a dug-out than moulder away in a director’s box.” Jock Stein, speaking in 1978. Many…