Former Rangers star Dave McKinnon has revealed for the first time how cheated death earlier this year after rupturing an artery in his brain during a horror fall.
And how he’s now helping raise funds for a stricken ex-team mate who suffered the same freak accident just weeks earlier - and ended up in a coma with permanent brain damage. McKinnon had to be rushed to hospital for lifesaving surgery after falling down a flight of stairs in Edinburgh and smashing his skull on a concrete beam.
And the horrific incident came less than two months after McKinnon’s one time Dundee team mate John MacPhail was left fighting for his life after falling down a staircase in his house. McKinnon and MacPhail were part of a Dens Park side managed by Lisbon Lion Tommy Gemmell in the late 1970s which included Jimmy Johnstone and Gordon Strachan.
