Scotland honours football heroes

Rangers FC manager Walter Smith and his Celtic FC counterpart Gordon Strachan are among the new names in the Scottish Football Museum's Hall of Fame.

Nine inducted
Former national coach Smith and Strachan were inducted at a gala dinner in Glasgow along with Ally McCoist, Alan Hansen, Rose Reilly, Eddie Turnbull, Willie Bauld, Eric Caldow and Jimmy Cowan, taking the number of laureates celebrated in the museum at Hampden Park to 51. A ceremony will be held there on Monday with Gordon Smith, chief executive of the Scottish Football Association, in attendance.

Success
Smith led Rangers to the last seven of their Scottish record-equalling nine consecutive titles in the 1990s and moved on to Everton, taking the national team job in 2004 and masterminding their fine start to UEFA EURO 2008™ qualifying before returning to Rangers. Strachan was capped 50 times as a much-decorated player with Aberdeen FC, Manchester United FC and Leeds United AFC before moving into management with Coventry City FC, Southampton FC and Celtic, where he has won two league titles in as many seasons.

Honours
McCoist, a key player for Smith at Rangers where he remains the club's all-time leading scorer and is now assistant manager, totalled 19 goals in 61 games for Scotland while Turnbull went to the 1958 FIFA World Cup and was also part of Hibernian FC's 'Famous Five' forward line. Heart of Midlothian FC player and Scottish international Bauld, who died in 1977, was known as 'King of Hearts' for his long service at Tynecastle and helped them win the league title in 1958 and 1960. Defender Hansen was capped 26 times but was part of the hugely successful Liverpool FC team of the 1980s, winning three European Champion Clubs' Cups and eight English titles.

Pioneer
Caldow captained Scotland, winning 40 caps, and also played for Rangers while goalkeeper Cowan starred in a famous 3-1 win against England at Wembley in 1949. Stewarton-born Reilly broke new ground when the former pentathlete moved to Italy to play for the AC Milan women's team and was the star of the Azzurre's victory in the unofficial 1983 female world cup, scoring in the final against the United States in China. She is the first women to be inducted.