The team that drinks together, wins together.
Although Richard Gough might credit Ian Durrant with coming up with that motto, it did become synonymous with the Rangers skipper during the Ibrox club’s historic run towards nine in a row. Signed by Graeme Souness from Spurs one year into a tumultuous Ibrox revolution, Gough would go on to lead the club to nine successive league titles while also lifting three Scottish Cups and six League Cups.
And, speaking in the latest episode of our headline making Off the Record podcast, Gough has lifted the lid on the boozy team bonding sessions which underpinned a decade of success - and led to him and his team-mates being banned from the sleepy seaside town after being caught up in a bar brawl with a gang of Hells Angels. Gough said: “If we’d lost a game I would take the boys out. I would say to Walter that we were going out to release some energy, or whatever it was.
