The then-legendary Jock Stein took on the task of lifting a battered and beleaguered Scotland after the debacle in Argentina. His magic worked, and they qualified easily for the World Cup finals in Spain. The team was certainly transformed, packed with winners who between them held just about every domestic and European club honour. A true squad of champions - but were they world beaters? This is Scotland's Football Year of 1982 - Viva España!
The new series of The Football Years kicks off with 1974 and Scotland’s Golden Generation. Were they the greatest squad of players ever to pull on the famous dark blue jersey? Featuring exclusive interviews and archive footage from World Cup '74.
East Germany was a Soviet-run facility with a wall known as an Anti-Fascist Barrier. If you've ever driven a Lada/Yugo/Skoda/FSO from the Eastern Bloc era you will know that fuck all made there worked properly. Therefore it was no surprise that once the Wall and the Hoff were cleared we had 30yrs worth of Marxism blocked up and ready to destroy us.
However no cunt was buying a Trabant so East Germany made ends meet using real science - rather than Elena Ceausescu science where she got equal credit if Marius Hagi invented an electric three-headed ice-cream scoop. (Elena got what she deserved for her Christmas - live on Romanian telly - while we got that shite with the old woman. Chat show with no guests. Like Mrs Merton, but without being a dick to Bernard Manning.)
German athletes were selected for a form of research pioneered by Dr Jo Mengele named Utter Fucking Inhumanity 666. This allowed the Germans to invent the strange people we refer to today as the trans lobby. Today the trans community has taken great strides and they are welcome wherever they go, whether it be verbally abusing an esteemed academic, or just merrily raping their way through a women's prison.