I’m gutted about the Goalie, it’s difficult to process it even though everyone knew what was coming.
I’ll tell you what, you show me a better goalkeeper on earth at the same time when Andy Goram was at his absolute peak and I’ll show you a liar and hater. No one was better than him on his day, and if he played now? Christ knows what he would have been worth but it would have been a fortune!!
The man was a true legend, a true club great. His legacy will carry forever, no doubt about it.
As a kid, I only stayed along the road in cardonald and when it was school holidays and summer time I would go down to Ibrox with my pals so we could see who we could meet. One day, it was around 1995, it was a roasting hot day and I stood with my big pal just waiting to see who would turn up. A lot of players would kind of try and rush in without stopping, but the main guys who would always stop would be big Goughie, Bomber Brown, Stuart McCall etc. I wanted only one man’s photo at the time, big Hateley but he didn’t like stopping usually! Another who’s photo I coveted was Andy Goram. My wee brother was a keen goalie himself and he was being trained at football schools by Alan Hodgkinson at the time who was Gorams coach. Mr Goram stopped by when I asked him how he was doing and if he wouldn’t mind stopping. He couldn’t have been any nicer, I told him my wee brother was a goalie himself and that he wanted to be Andy Goram! The goalie simply said “good lad, tell him to stick at it and he will get there” that was good enough for me and the wee man was delighted when I told him!
My mum still has the photo at home in a photo album, of me and the goalie. It’s the only one I have left from my old days of hanging around looking for autographs!!
Rest in eternal peace, Goalie. You bloody earned it!!