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Jock Stein: The Man Who Guided Celtic to Historic Heights & Mentored Sir Alex Ferguson

Jock Stein is number 28 in 90min's Top 50 Great Managers of All Time series. Follow the rest of the series over the course of the next six weeks.

You can knock the standard of Scottish football all day long, if that's what you like. The small, sparsely populated nation at the point of Britain doesn't have the means to compete at the height of the current footballing climate, either at club or international level.

What it does have, however, is a storied history of working class people and values that has bled into everything of note it has produced over the years.