A great story by Archie Gemmill - player on the Scottish 78 World Cup side that featured Willie Johnston being bounced from the tourney for taking a pep pill. This is an extract in the timesonline today of his book to be coming out soon.
Good read of the continuing saga of the Scots who always manage to find a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
September 04, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2093-1764199,00.html
"Our crying shame
The 1978 World Cup in Argentina stunned the nation. Here Archie Gemmill reveals how several teammates took pills though only Willie Johnston was caught, and how Holland, the beaten finalists, handed Scotland an insult"
Read on from there.
Good read of the continuing saga of the Scots who always manage to find a way of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
September 04, 2005
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2093-1764199,00.html
"Our crying shame
The 1978 World Cup in Argentina stunned the nation. Here Archie Gemmill reveals how several teammates took pills though only Willie Johnston was caught, and how Holland, the beaten finalists, handed Scotland an insult"
Read on from there.