Tributes to 'The Goalie' Andy Goram ahead of funeral in Glasgow
Last updated 18th Jul 2022
Rangers players and fans will pay their last respects to goalkeeper Andy Goram at a funeral service in Glasgow.
The former Ibrox and Scotland player, known simply to many as "The Goalie", died after a short battle with oesophageal cancer.
The 58-year-old will be remembered at a service at Wellington Church in Glasgow on Monday afternoon.
Ahead of that, wreaths will be laid at at Glasgow's Ibrox stadium, where Goram was part of the squad that won nine Scottish league titles in a row.
Speaking to Forth 1, Tommy McIntyre from the This is Ibrox podcast, said: "Andy Goram, for me, is, and probably will always be, the best goalkeeper Rangers ever had.
"I think it's really interesting that people don't think about other goalkeepers unless they're correlated to Andy Goram.
"You quite often hear people say 'He's not as good as Andy Goram', or 'He's getting to the standard of Andy Goram'.
"If you're a player, or a goalkeeper, and you set the bar that your fans and other people always go back to and check other players against, I think that's a legacy that anyone should be really proud of."
Born in Bury, Goram began his career at Oldham Athletic before moving north to play for Edinburgh side Hibernian, then signing for Rangers.
After his time at Ibrox he played for a number of teams in both Scotland and England, including Notts County, Sheffield United and Motherwell for three seasons, as well as spells at Manchester United, Coventry, Queen of the South and then lastly Elgin City.
As well as representing Scotland at football, he also played for the country as a cricketer - and is the only person to have played a first-class international match at cricket as well as a major international football match for Scotland.
After his death, Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon hailed Goram as "one of Scotland's all-time football greats".