Duncan Ferguson has opened up on his “biggest regret” of ending his Scotland career over a bitter SFA feud, claiming it cost up to 200 caps.
And the former striker admitted he was seriously temped to end his self-imposed international exile when his former Rangers boss Walter Smith and ex-Ibrox team-mate Ally McCoist took charge in 2004. Ferguson won just seven caps for Scotland over a seven-year spell from 1992 but retired in 1997 in protest after the SFA tried to hammer him with a 12-game ban on top of his 44-day jail sentence for head butting Raith Rovers defender Jock McStay.
The infamous on-field assault took place in April 1994 as Rangers took on the Fifers at Ibrox. And Ferguson, who went on to enjoy a career at the top level in England during two spells with Everton which sandwiched a stint at Newcastle United, admits he regrets it now.
