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Matthew Ketchell

‘Graeme Souness used to line us up vs the English lads at training. We had a proper scrap one day’ Ally McCoist recalls the legendary England vs Scotland training games at Rangers

Graeme Souness Ally McCoist Rangers England Scotland Terry Butcher Chris Woods Ian Durrant Ibrox
The Rangers players celebrate winning the 1988 Skol Cup Final..Back row from left: Graeme Souness, Ian Ferguson, John Brown, Ally McCoist, Gary Stevens, Derek Ferguson, Phil Boersma and Richard Gough..Front row from left: Terry Butcher, Stuart Munro, Chris Woods, Mark Walters and Ray Wilkins.

Graeme Souness signed a number of Englishmen during his reign as Glasgow Rangers manager, so many that five-a-side training games on Fridays could be split into England vs Scotland matches. Controversially, Souness would line up against his own country.

Souness did make his name in English football. Starting as an apprentice at Tottenham Hotspur in 1970 he failed to properly break through at White Hart Lane and signed for Middlesbrough for £30,000 two years later.

Playing almost 200 times for the Teesside club, he earned a high-profile move to Liverpool, winning five league titles, three European Cups and four League Cups. He went on to manage the club in the early 90s and won the FA Cup in charge of the club in 1990.

'They could never beat us'

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