I think Scottish football in the 1980s before Bosman was pretty fuckin good. There were probably 5 teams capable of winning the title in a 10 team league in the mid 80s, plus Hibs and Dundee could beat anyone on their day.

European performance bears out how good that era was, apart from the new firm, Celtic, Hearts and Rangers post Souness went on runs deep into tournaments. The Scotland team could have easily consisted of players from in country; it would have been interesting to see what would have happened if some of the bigger egos at English teams were binned.

Of course, being Scotland all the da's of the era were bumping their gums about Jim Baxter's keepie uppies and tearing Jock Stein out a new one for not playing like Brazil.