SCOTTISH football has been saddened by the sudden death of the former Rangers manager Jock Wallace.

Wallace (60), was one of the personalities of football and steeped in the game from his days as a goal keeper with Airdrie.

It is understood he died after being taken ill on his way to visit one of his family in Basiagstoke.

He was raised in Wallyford, near Edinburgh, and was the man who guided Rangers to two trebles in the 1970s and ended the nine in a row run of Scottish Championships by Jock Stein's Celtic.

In 1967 he was the goalkeeper for Berwick Rangers as the club from the English border town inflicted the most famous upset in Scottish Cup history a 1-0 first round victory at Shielfield Park over a Rangers side that reached the European Cup Winners' Cup final later that season.

Within three years Wallace had arrived at Ibrox on the back room staff under manager Willie Waddell.

He succeeded Waddell in 1972 after the pair had led Rangers to their only European success, a Cup Winners' Cup triumph in Barcelona over Moscow Dynamo.

He went on to manage Leicester City and back in Scotland with Motherwell and enjoyed a brief but less successful second spell as manager at Ibrox between 1983 and 1986.

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