With the football season well with us we are reminded of a story concerning the late former Scottish team manager Ally Macleod, who died earlier this year. Always cheerful, in spite of some disastrous results, it did not always work for Ally.
Scotland had just drawn 1-1 with Iran in the 1978 World Cup Finals and a solitary MacLeod was sitting gathering his thoughts when a small dog approached. ”Ah, my only friend in the world,” he remarked. The dog then bit him!