Andy Goram

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Andy Goram
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Personnel
Surname Andrew Lewis Goram
birthday April 13, 1964
place of birth BuryEngland
size 181 cm
position goalkeeper
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1981-1987 Oldham Athletic 195 (0)
1987-1991 Hibernian Edinburgh 138 (1)
1991-1998 Glasgow Rangers 184 (0)
1998 Notts County 1 (0)
1998 Sheffield United 7 (0)
1998-2001 Motherwell FC 57 (0)
2001 →  Manchester United  (loan) 1 (0)
2001 Hamilton Academical 1 (0)
2001-2002 Coventry City 7 (0)
2002 Oldham Athletic 4 (0)
2002-2003 Queen of the South 19 (0)
2003-2004 Elgin City 5 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985-1998 Scotland 43 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Andrew "Andy" Lewis Goram (born April 13, 1964 in Bury , England ) is a former Scottish professional footballer ( goalkeeper ).

Goram began his career in the youth of Oldham Athletic before moving to Scotland for Hibernian Edinburgh in 1987 , where his performances attracted the attention of the Glasgow Rangers , who signed him in 1991 for a transfer fee of one million pounds . He grew into a Rangers goalkeeper legend who was voted the best Rangers goalkeeper of all time by fans. He won nine league titles in a row (1991-1998) and was named Scotland's Footballer of the Year in 1993 . From 1991 to 1998 he made 260 league games for the Rangers. He ended his career with the small clubs Queen of the South and Elgin City .

He also completed 48 international matches as a Scottish national goalkeeper and took part in the European Championships in 1992 and 1996 .

He is controversial because of his sympathy for loyal Northern Irish terrorists. After the loyalist Billy Wright was murdered in prison in 1997, he wore a mourning bracelet at the next Rangers game - allegedly because of a deceased relative. His ex-wife Tracey posted a photo of him holding the flag of the Northern Irish terrorist organization Ulster Volunteer Force in a pub . The photo was taken during his time as a regular goalkeeper for the Rangers, but was only published later.

Others

Goram was celebrated by Glasgow Rangers fans with the choir “There's only one Andy Goram”. After his schizophrenia became known, the fans sang "There's only two (two) Andy Gorams" and voted him the greatest Rangers goalkeeper of all time.

Individual evidence

  1. It's very smoky in here ... has another f ****** Pope died? , Sunday Mirror, May 29, 2005
  2. ^ The 30 most outrageous sporting moments , Observer Sport Monthly, October 31, 2004
  3. Goram ducks Celtic confrontation , WorldSoccerNews.com, February 19, 1999
  4. ^ Comment in DerWesten.de, viewed November 11, 2009