Sunday 22 November 2009

45 Jock Wallace



Jock Wallace became noted after guiding his first club as manager - Berwick Rangers - to an historic victory over Rangers. He was rewarded with a coaching job at Hearts and finally became coach under Willie Waddell at Rangers, before being appointed manager when Waddell moved upstairs. Wallace's Rangers side finally broke Celtic's stranglehold over the Scottish league and won their first title in 11 years. He went on to win 3 league titles in 4 years and won the domestic treble on two occasions. On the verge of greatness as Rangers manager, he resigned for reasons unknown to this day. He later became a successful manager at Leicester City, guiding them to the championship of the second tier in 1980. He even attempted to sign Johan Cruyff for Leicester City, coming close to achieving the greatest coup of the club's history. He was renowned as a some of a fire-breathing manager in the Ferguson mould. Gary Lineker once described being pinned against the dressing room wall and told he was a "****ing lazy English ****," despite having scored both goals in the first half in a game they were leading 2-0. The rest of his career was fairly undistinguished, including spells at Colchester, Sevilla and a second spell at Rangers with 2 league cup wins but a failure to meet expectations at Ibrox.

British league champions: 3
Foreign league champions: 0
European cup: 0

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