Ally McCoist performed alongside Paul Gascoigne at Rangers between 1995 and 1998, with the Englishman offering the Scotland legend sufficient loopy tales to final a lifetime.
Whereas two league titles earned Gazza hero standing at Rangers, his spell north of the border additionally noticed him trigger a diplomatic incident after taking part in an imaginary Orange Order flute at Celtic Park, hiding two lifeless fishes in a team-mates automotive and even getting held on a peg by Walter Smith after clashing with McCoist throughout half-time of the 1996 Scottish League Cup ultimate.
Yet another barely uncommon story concerned him placing a swan into the again of a automotive, whereas he additionally managed to get a pensioner concerned in coaching, too.
Ally McCoist describes how Gazza managed to get a pensioner saving penalties in a Rangers coaching periods
“I wasn’t in that automotive, it was Ian Durrant and Jukebox [Gordon Durie], I believe, however getting a swan right into a automotive wouldn’t be an issue for him,” McCoist tells FourFourTwo. “He managed to get an outdated pensioner on the bus to attend coaching sooner or later – this pensioner ended up stepping into purpose and saving penalties.”
On one other event, a firework prank landed Gazza in a cell for a number of hours.
“We had been within the dressing room, and he wasn’t even concerned within the dialog, however I used to be saying to those who I used to be going to have a wee firework show for the children,” McCoist provides. “He sidled as much as me two minutes later and went, ‘By the best way, I’m your man if you would like some fireworks’.
“Anybody with widespread sense would have walked in the wrong way at that time, however I went, ‘Come on, then’. He ended up getting me two £100 packing containers for about £30 and this rocket… effectively, the following stage up wanted to be manned! It had a head on it that wouldn’t have regarded misplaced at Cape Kennedy, I swear to God.
“We had an amazing firework show, then on the Sunday evening, as a result of he lived within the subsequent village to me, he thinks it’s a good suggestion to let one off and level it within the path of my village. At 2am, it lit up my bed room and I used to be mendacity in my bed room in hysterics.
“Then the cops phoned to inform me they had been offering Mr Gascoigne with a mattress and a few breakfast within the morning, and would I be capable to come over and decide him up… [Laughs]. At 6.30am, I used to be spherical on the police station. Gazza was shaking his head – he walked over to the automotive and simply mentioned, ‘That wasn’t certainly one of my finest concepts, was it?’”
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