St Johnstone legend famous for bust-up with Gers boss Souness passes away at 72
SCOTTISH football’s most famous tea lady has died.
Aggie Moffat spent 27 years looking after St Johnstone managers and hundreds of players behind the scenes at Muirton Park and then McDiarmid Park.
But Aggie, who was 72, is best remembered for a 1991 Perth bust-up with the then Rangers manager Graeme Souness which saw club owner Geoff Brown forced to be peacemaker.
The row brewed after houseproud Aggie clashed with Souness outside the boardroom in the wake of a 1-1 draw.
She was raging about a broken kettle and the mess left in the visitors’ dressing room.
Recalling the clash years later, Aggie said: “That row grew arms and legs. It’s all water under the bridge now – but I still wouldn’t speak to the man.
“Mind you, I had bigger fallouts with Saints’ directors Geoff Brown and Stewart Duff and they never made the papers.”
Souness admitted the clash persuaded him to quit Scottish football and head back to Liverpool.
“What pushed it over the edge for me was when I became involved in an incident with a tea lady at St Johnstone,” he said. “I ended up arguing in the boardroom with the club chairman and I’m one step away from... you know ... I asked myself what was I doing? “This lady wasn’t scared of me!” Aggie was even approached to join Hollywood legend Robert Duvall and one-time Saints player and Rangers legend Ally McCoist in the 2000 movie A Shot at Glory.
But she turned down the role of “Wee Brenda,” a tea lady with village club Kilnockie who had a spat with a leading manager.
Souness said yesterday: “It’s terribly sad news when anyone dies and my condolences and sympathy go out to Aggie’s family.
“I hope she had a happy life and managed to laugh and smile as much as I did about our little run-in.”