Jock Stein

Jock Stein (1922–1985) was a Scottish football manager whose Celtic side became the first British club to win the European Cup, defeating Inter Milan in Lisbon in 1967 with a team composed entirely of players born within thirty miles of Glasgow. He managed Scotland's national team to the 1982 World Cup.

John Stein was born on 5 October 1922 in Burnbank, Lanarkshire, the son of a coal miner. He left school at fourteen for the pits at Bothwell Castle Colliery, where he worked alongside his father while playing junior football on weekends.

He turned professional with Albion Rovers in 1942 and signed for Welsh club Llanelly in 1950, before Celtic bought him in December 1951 as a stopgap centre-half. He captained Celtic to the league and cup double in 1953–54 and retired from playing in 1957 after an ankle injury.

He managed Dunfermline Athletic to the 1961 Scottish Cup and Hibernian to fourth place before returning to Celtic as manager in March 1965. Over thirteen seasons he won ten league titles, eight Scottish Cups, six League Cups, and the 1967 European Cup. He moved to Leeds United briefly in 1978, then took charge of Scotland in October that year. He collapsed and died of a heart attack in the Cardiff dugout on 10 September 1985, moments after Scotland secured a World Cup play-off place against Wales.

His name Jock derives from a Scottish diminutive of John, ultimately from the Hebrew Yochanan meaning "Yahweh is gracious." Jock is a Scottish masculine pet form of John long used as a generic nickname for any Scotsman.