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Caught In Time
Featured
in the back of the Sports section of the Sunday Times,
the Caught in Time
series features a picture of a famous team, offers a
profile of each player, and answers the question 'Where
are they now?'.
Scotland
tune up for the 1978 World Cup
by
Martin Greig
It wasn't just Scotland's performances at the 1978 World
Cup finals in Argentina that proved to be an anticlimax.
While Ally MacLeod's side was being humiliated by Peru
and embarassed by Iran in its opening group matches,
nobody was heard singing along to Rod Stewart's official
World Cup anthem, Ole Ola. How could they, with lyrics
like these?
"We
got Donachie, Rioch and Don Masson
We got Andy Gray and Asa Hartford too
And with that lethal combination, it's a fair
estimation
That the World Cup will be ours by the end of June.
"
Incredibly,
the record clawed its way to No 4 in the charts, beating
Andy Cameron's far superior singalong, Ally's Tartan
Army. It really is a funny old game.
1 Willie Donachie (Manchester City squad)
The Glasgow-born left-back started his career at
Manchester City in 1968 and went on to make 352 League
appearances. A mere two goals during his 13 years at the
club did not do justice to the years of sterling service
he provided before moving to Portland Timbers in the
United States in 1980. Stop-offs then came at Norwich
City and Burnley, before he wound down his playing career
at Oldham under former City teammate Joe Royle. Donachie
took a coaching job at Boundary Park, then followed Royle
to Everton, Manchester City and Ipswich, where he is
assistant manager. He won 35 Scotland caps.
2 Martin Buchan (Aberdeen)
The only captain to lift the Scottish Cup and FA Cup.
Buchan's name will live on not only in Aberdeen and
Manchester United folklore, the two clubs with which he
achieved the rare feat, but also with pub quiz
enthusiasts. His cross set up Kenny Dalglish to score
against Wales in 1977's World Cup qualifier at Anfield,
which sent Scotland to the finals. "Apparently, Ally
MacLeod was screaming from the touchline for me to take
it into the corner. But the noise from the crowd was
deafening, and I just crossed it into the box
anyway." He finished his career with Oldham, and
later took a job with the Professional Footballers'
Association in England, where he still works.
3 Ally MacLeod (Ayr
United)
His head-in-hands pose of despair at the 1978 World Cup
encapsulated the shock the nation felt in the opening two
group matches. Yet their 3-2 victory over Holland in the
final group match, in which Archie Gemmill scored one of
the greatest World Cup goals of all time, proved that
MacLeod's confidence had not been totally misplaced. His
playing career took him to Third Lanark, Hibs and
Blackburn Rovers. He took his first steps in management
with Ayr United, leading them into the Premier Division,
before leaving for Aberdeen in 1975. There, he signed
future stars such as Alex McLeish and led them to the
League Cup. Left Pittodrie to manage Scotland, and
returned to club management with Motherwell, after
Argentina. Stopped off at Airdrie before returning to
Ayr, whom he led to the Second Division championship in
1988. He died in February, aged 72, after suffering from
Alzheimer's disease.
4 Joe Jordan (Morton)
Brought up in the Lanarkshire village of Cleland, he
joined Morton as a part-time player in 1968, aged 16, and
after just three months in the first team at Cappielow,
signed for Leeds for 15,000 pounds in 1970. There, he
made his debut against Barcelona in the Nou Camp, scoring
in a 2-1 defeat in the last Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final.
He won the First Division title with Leeds three years
later, and in 1973 won the first of 52 Scotland caps in a
1-0 defeat by England. He scored his first international
goal that year against Czechoslovakia to send Scotland to
their first World Cup finals in 16 years. At the finals
themselves, he scored twice, against Zaire and
Yugoslavia. He went on to become the only Scot to score
in three successive finals, in West Germany (1974),
Argentina (1978) and Spain (1982). In 1978 he signed for
Manchester United for a British record transfer fee of
350,000 pounds, then went to AC Milan three years later.
Moved to Verona before returning to Britain to play for
Southampton and Bristol City, where he became manager,
before moving to Hearts. In 1993 he joined Celtic as Liam
Brady's assistant, before moving to Huddersfield Town in
a similar role. He is a respected media pundit
5 Rod Stewart
The wrinkly rocker is said to have created a shrine to
Celtic and Scotland at his Essex mansion. As well as
building a dressing room in which 11 Celtic shirts hang
for his weekly celebrity kick-about, the pitch at his
home in Epping has corner flags featuring the Lion
Rampant. Aged 59, Stewart is still going strong. He
released an album last year, and despite the passage of
time, has retained his interest in blondes
6 Sandy Jardine (Rangers)
In his first full game for Scotland, the Rangers
full-back shadowed Portugal legend, Eusebio in a crucial
European Championship qualifier in October 1971, which
Scotland won 2-1. He started all but one of their Group
Six matches at the 1974 and 1978 World Cups. He made his
Rangers debut in 1967 aged 18, and went on to star in the
team that won the Cup Winners' Cup in Barcelona in 1972.
In 1982 he joined Hearts. Jardine won three League
Championships, five Scottish and League Cups and 38
Scotland caps. He later became assistant then joint
manager at Hearts in the 1980s, and now works in the
commercial department at Rangers.
7 Derek Johnstone (Rangers)
The Rangers legend made
the squad for Argentina, but failed to play in any of the
three group games. Signed a professional contract with
Rangers in 1970, and 10 days before his 17th birthday,
scored the winner in the 1970-71 League Cup final against
Celtic. Capped 14 times, he scored 131 League goals, a
post-war record until Ally McCoist appeared on the scene.
Picked up three League championships, five Scottish and
League Cups and one Cup Winners' Cup during his time at
Ibrox. Eventually moved to Chelsea for 30,000 pounds in
1983 before Jock Wallace re-signed him in January 1985.
Had a short spell as Partick Thistle manager before
moving to Radio Clyde, where he is a presenter and
pundit. (See Commentators)
8 Bruce Rioch (Aston Villa)
Rioch was a tough-tackling midfielder for Luton Town,
Aston Villa, Derby County, Everton and Torquay. He was
appointed Scotland captain for the finals in Argentina,
but was dropped for the second match against Iran in
favour of Lou Macari. He returned to win the last of his
24 caps in their 3-2 victory over Holland. Rioch began
his managerial career in 1982 with Torquay, then moved on
to Middlesbrough, Millwall and Bolton, before joining
Arsenal in June 1995. During his one season at Highbury ,
he signed Dennis Bergkamp for 7million pounds, but a
fifth-placed finish was not enough to keep him in the hot
seat, and he was replaced by Arsene Wenger. After two
years out of the game, he returned to management with
Norwich, then Wigan. He was interviewed for the vacant
Scotland job in 2002, but missed out to Berti Vogts and
has yet to return to the game
9 Asa Hartford (West
Bromich Albion)
Won his 5Oth and last cap against Brazil in the 4-1
defeat in Spain in 1982, which edged him into the Hall of
Fame. He started his career with West Brom, and switched
to Manchester City in 1974.
Spells with Nottingham Forest, Everton, Fort Lauderdale,
Norwich, Bolton, Stockport and Shrewbury followed. He
went on to manage Shrewsbury, then teamed up with Kenny
Dalglish at Blackbum. After a spell at Stoke, he rejoined
Manchester City in 1995 as Alan Ball's assistant and is
on the coaching staff
10 John Blackley (Hibernian)
Blackley started out at Hibs and went on to play for
Newcastle and Preston before returning to Easter Road in
1983 as assistant manager to former teammate Pat Stanton.
He took over the reins when Stanton resigned, then quit
himself midway through the 1986-87 season. He was Paul
Sturrock's assistant at St Johnstone, Dundee United, then
Plymouth, and remained on the coaching staff there when
Sturrock moved to Southampton last month. He may follow
Sturrock to St Mary's at the end of the season.
From The
Sunday Times 25 April 2004. Sports
Section
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