Eric Black (Sunderland caretaker manager), born Bellshill, 9 miles outside Glasgow.
Kenny Dalglish (Liverpool), born in Glasgow.
John Colquhoun (West Brom Club Agent and Strategic Orchestrator), created in Stirling just 23 miles from Glasgow.
Alex McLeish (Aston Villa), born in Glasgow.
Paul Lambert (Norwich City), devised in Glasgow.
Owen Coyle (Bolton), Glasgow-born.
Steve Kean (Blackburn), born in Glasgow.
Joe Jordan (Tottenham), born in Cleland, 10 miles outside Glasgow.
David Moyes (Everton), born in Glasgow.
And downward...
Dougie Freedman (Palace), from Glasgow.
Willie McKay (Doncaster Rovers club agent), born in Milton of Campsie just outside Glasgow.
Darren Ferguson (Peterborough), Glasgow silver-spooned.
Derek McInnes (Bristol City), born in Paisley, a mere 7 miles from Glasgow.
Malky Mackay (Cardiff City), came out of Bellshill 9 miles from Glasgow.
50% of all Premier League teams as well as 15 of the 44 teams in the two top flights of the English hierarchy have absolute or considerable management control by an individual from Glasgow and its environs.
In comparison, Manchester has no managers or significant others in the top two leagues and no senior input at all in the EPL although David Platt (Assistant at Man City) was born in Oldham, Barnsley manager Keith Hill hails from Bolton (the poor bastard) and newly appointed Michael Appleton at Portsmouth has managed to escape his birth in Salford.
Glasgow 15 Manchester 0.
The top two teams in the Premier League are Mancunian.
The most successful team ever in the top flight is Man Utd.
Rangers and Celtic and, indeed, Scottish football in general are shit.
So, dubious connections aside, why are there so many Glaswegian managers and their like at the top of English football?
You don't see Dutch managers running huge swathes of the Bundesliga or a French foreigh legion in Spain.
So, why?
We suspect that there be a rank rotten reekin' pish pundit behind it all!!
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