Madden and Dick. It may sound like a law-firm, a Glasgow law practice, but they made Czech or rather Prague football and also by extension had with Jimmy Hogan an influence on the Slovakian game. Yet the contrasts between them are notable. One was a Catholic, the other a Protestant. One was a country boy, the other not. One played most of his career in England, one in Scotland. One was a forward, the other a half-back. One played for Scotland, the other did not. They coached rival teams in the Bohemian capital, a rivalry that is as strong today as it was then. One coached Bohemia and then Czechoslovakia. The other did not. One returned to Britain. The other stayed. What they did share was their Scottish-ness, that neither was Glaswegian and a national footballing story.
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