Updated: May 24, 2021, 12:06 pm
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Graeme Souness and Alex Ferguson would go toe-to-toe at the Mexico World Cup.
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It was the tournament where Scotland arrived and departed with barely a whimper: the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, which marked a bruising encounter between two of the giant figures in the game.
In the red corner was Alex Ferguson, the Aberdeen boss, who had steered the Pittodrie club to unprecedented success in the previous seven years, but who took charge of his country’s fortunes in unforeseen and tragic circumstances, following the sudden death of Jock Stein in Wales the previous autumn.
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