It’s often said that football does not produce many characters these days. No one said that during Duncan Ferguson’s career. Big Dunc has been entertaining and enraging football fans for 35 years.
He found stardom early, joining Rangers in 1993 for a British transfer record fee, but playing for the club he had supported as a boy did not work out for Ferguson. Instead, he made his home south of the border at Everton, where he became a man mountain of a striker, a club legend and, briefly, a manager.