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Matthew Ketchell

‘I wish it hadn’t happened, but I don’t think I deserved to go to prison. I got looked after, but that won’t stop somebody throwing a bucket of s**te at you’ Duncan Ferguson tells FourFourTwo about the horrors of Glasgow’s notorious Barlinnie Prison

Duncan Ferguson playing for Rangers in 1994, Duncan Ferguson heading to prison in 1995, Duncan Ferguson playing for Scotland U21s in 1993.

Duncan Ferguson headbutted Raith Rovers’ player, John McStay, on the pitch at Ibrox in April 1994 in one of Scottish football’s most controversial moments.

Incredibly, referee Kenny Clark missed the incident, but the authorities didn’t overlook it, and a year and a half later, the striker was sentenced to three months in prison owing to a breach of probation because of other assault convictions on his record.

Speaking exclusively to FourFourTwo over thirty years later, Ferguson is adamant he didn’t deserve to go to prison.

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