Gennaro Gattuso has revealed that his dad threatened to punch him if he didn't sign for Rangers in 1997.
Then a teenage prospect making his name in the Italian second tier, the Scottish giants came in with a seizable offer for his services. Gattuso didn't initially want to accept, though, having not been keen to swap sunny Umbria for the less tropical Glasgow.
But after a firm conversation with his carpenter father, Francessco, he shook hands with manager Walter Smith and famously became a Ger.
