‘Graeme Souness used to line us up vs the English lads at coaching. We had a correct scrap someday’ Ally McCoist recollects the legendary England vs Scotland coaching video games at Rangers
Graeme Souness signed quite a lot of Englishmen throughout his reign as Glasgow Rangers supervisor, so many who five-a-side coaching video games on Fridays may very well be cut up into England vs Scotland matches. Controversially, Souness would line up towards his personal nation.
Souness did make his identify in English soccer. Beginning as an apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur in 1970 he didn’t correctly break by means of at White Hart Lane and signed for Middlesbrough for £30,000 two years later.
Enjoying virtually 200 instances for the Teesside membership, he earned a high-profile transfer to Liverpool, profitable 5 league titles, three European Cups and 4 League Cups. He went on to handle the membership within the early 90s and received the FA Cup in command of the membership in 1990.
‘They might by no means beat us’
Rangers staff within the Eighties was affected by English gamers resembling Terry Butcher (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
“Graeme used to play with England, which drove us psychological,” recollects Ally McCoist, chatting with FourFourTwo. McCoist loved among the finest seasons of his profession below Souness with the supervisor utilizing these cross-border video games as a motivational tactic.
