David Moyes has revealed how he won a £5 bet with Kevin Keegan – when he was a 14-year-old Scotland fan at Wembley.
The Sunderland boss will be in London to see his nation take on Gareth Southgate’s England side on Friday night.
The trip south for the fixture is a well-worn path – Moyes’ dad, David snr, ran coaches for the Tartan Army from Glasgow to London.
It was on one of those trips, in June 1977, that teenage Moyes ended up sitting a row in front of England stars who were not playing.
He revealed: “I was in a seat in the stand. There was Keegan behind me and I remember Joe Corrigan. I was sitting near my dad.
Scotland fans' Wembley '77 celebrations spilled out onto the pitch:
“Scotland were 1-0 up at half-time and Kevin tapped me on the shoulder and said, ‘I bet you a fiver that England win’. I was a wee boy and a fiver was quite a lot of money, but my dad said, ‘Aye’.
“And, as it was, Scotland won 2-1 and he handed the fiver over. He got up and left about two or three minutes before the end and he handed the fiver over. I kept that fiver for years!
“And then I must have had a girlfriend or something and I took her out with it and I spent it. That was it. I kept it for years, Kevin Keegan’s fiver.
"Or maybe just because I’m Scottish!
“I’ve spoken to Kevin about it, but, obviously, he can’t remember me.”
Moyes will take a more comfortable route to Scotland than Moyes Coaches.
He said: “My dad used to run the buses from Anniesland, Glasgow, in the west end. Everybody had a kilt on and everybody was completely tartaned up. I didn’t wear a kilt, I probably had my Bay City Rollers trousers on.
“There were thousands of us going down in London. You couldn’t walk down the aisle because of the cases of beer all the way down.
“One of the times we broke down just getting into London, we’d been on it for I don’t know how many hours. All the older men were lifting their kilts up to every car coming past. I was at the game when the crossbar got broken as well.”
Moyes, who fancies the Scotland job one day in the future, reckons England are favourites to __win this week.
He added: “I hate saying that. I think we need Kenny Dalglish to come out of retirement and a few others – such as Jim Baxter – to come and help us.”