Pride of fans’ favourite voted Glasgow giants’ greatest-ever goalkeeper

Andy Goram believed he was “blessed by my football career”.

In his biography, The Goalie: My Story, he said he had no regrets and was just “a normal punter who likes a drink and a laugh”.

He said his career and private life had been turbulent but he was left with no regrets as he looked back.

He wrote: “Whatever they say about me on reckoning day, they will never say that I led a boring life. I hope there are some chapters left yet but I already know I was here, and I made a mark.

“What will they put on my tombstone? ‘Here lies Andy Goram. He was dealt a hand, and he played it. No regrets.’ That’ll do for me.

“I look back now and feel blessed by my football career. The seven years at Oldham, four at my dad’s club Hibs, then seven at Rangers, the team he loved; the adventures at Manchester United, Motherwell and Queen of the South; the 43 caps for Scotland and two European Championships: I loved it all.”

He also said he was glad to be a fans’ favourite, never straying too far from his roots.

He said: “I never set out to be three-times married Andy Goram, supposed womaniser and hell-raiser.

“I came from a stable background, but my mum and dad ran pubs and clubs all their lives, so that was the environment I grew up in.

“It’s no surprise that I ended up a normal punter who likes a drink and a laugh.

“I look at players now who have done nothing – on both sides of the Old Firm – and they strut around Glasgow as if they think they own it.

“I hope I was never like that. I drank with the fans I brought trophies home to, and I think the supporters appreciated that. I will always be the man voted Rangers greatest-ever goalkeeper, and no one can take that away from me.

“I’m sure there are at least three ladies out there who’d agree with Tommy Burns when he said I’d broken his heart, but I can’t change that now.”