Who are the top Scottish candidates for a moustache XI?
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What do you do on the morning of a game in Amsterdam? Prep work done. Preview podcast sent out into the world. Hours to kill before we go on-air, so you take a stroll into town and you happen upon the most unique football shop I think I've ever been in. And I've been in a few.
A room dedicated to Diego Maradona (three pairs of Diego socks for €40 if you're interested). A shrine to footballers who are no longer with us. A shot of Billy Connolly with George Best. Jerseys and tee-shirts in the hundreds. A random Old Firm picture. A remarkable place.
The Moustache XI is one of the highlights. Some outstanding efforts here. Big Andrzej Szarmach deserves to be right up there among the legends of the footballing facial furs. Nor can you argue with Hungary's Ferenc Meszaros and his impressive crumb catcher.
It's clearly a formidable line-up and one not to be messed with. But what about the right side of midfield? Roberto Rojas was good enough to make the Peru squad for 1978 World Cup, albeit he was sitting on the bench when a certain game was playing out.
He's an obvious weakness in this line-up though. He's a moustache minion among giants. There has to be better, doesn't there?
Willie Miller? Might be slightly out of position wide right but the great man could have played anywhere. Graeme Souness? The same applies. Any other suggestions, let me know and I'll march round there with a framed picture of a new hero to be hung on their very curious and surreally fantastic walls.