Watch new Icons of Football - on iPlayer from Thursday

TL;DR

The third season of 'Icons of Football' premieres on BBC Scotland on May 7, featuring stories of Scottish football stars. All episodes will be available on iPlayer starting Thursday.

Key points

Icons of Football returns for a third season
First episode features Henrik Larsson
All episodes available on iPlayer from May 7

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Henrik LarssonBBC Scotland

Icons of Football

Icons of Football is back, telling the incredible stories of how some of Scottish football's biggest stars made their names on the pitch and off it.

As an engrossing season of Scottish football draws to a close and the World Cup approaches, the third season of BBC Scotland's football documentary series returns with stories that fans across the country know, and plenty of stuff you don't.

All episodes are available on the iPlayer from Thursday, 7 May, with Henrik Larsson's episode the first to be shown live on BBC Scotland at 22:00 the same day.

Here is a flavour of what you can expect from each episode.

[BBC]

A man who needs no introduction to any fan of football, let alone in Scotland.

Larsson arrived in the summer of 1997 and would go on to play 315 games and score 242 goals.

He is widely considered to be one of the club's greatest-ever players and has been dubbed "The King of Kings" by the Celtic faithful.

From heartbreak in Seville to winning the Champions League with Barcelona - with some serious praise from Thierry Henry - Larsson is well and truly an icon of the game.

[BBC]

Brought in by Gerard Houllier as an 'old head' at Liverpool, Gary McAllister was already a title winner in England with Leeds, where he formed part of a formidable midfield quartet along with David Batty, Gary Speed, and Gordon Strachan.