Scottish Football

The inside story of a football transformation that changed a club – and a country – forever. When Graeme Souness answered an unexpected call in 1986, he left Italy's Sampdoria to rebuild a Rangers side in decline. What followed was five years of upheaval, controversy and brilliance: the...

Each November, about a hundred people with paper poppies pinned to their coats gather around a memorial in Edinburgh. They're there to commemorate the more than a dozen members of the local football team, Heart of Midlothian - almost every member of its starting lineup and many of its backup players - who went to war. A Bigger Field Awaits Us tells the little-known but poignant story of a group of Scottish athletes and their fans who went to war together - and the stories of the few who made it home.