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Leeds United legend Billy Bremner: the best Scottish players of the 1970s

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Leeds United. And he was spiky all right. The very epitome of a tartan terrier – five foot five, snapping at ankles and barking at team-mates and rivals alike.

But anyone who believes that’s all the Leeds United and Scotland captain was about clearly didn’t see Bremner at the peak of his powers.

He could play. In fact, Pele once described him as being the best player he saw at the 1974 World Cup and that was a tournament that featured Cruyff and Beckenbauer in their pomp.Bremner, a pale skinned, freckled, ginger dervish, wasn’t as pleasing on the eye as those two with a ball at his feet but ask anyone in Leeds who they’d rather have in their team and the lad from Stirling, who never kicked a ball professionally in his homeland, would get.

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