Bizarre Rangers bet that had players punting on when coach would break out his signature move

The Rangers players used to run a sweepstake on when Gary McAllister would do an invisible golf swing.

The Scotland hero was Steven Gerrard' s number two at Ibrox and helped the Scouser deliver a first Premiership title in a decade as the Light Blues went the entire 2021/21 season unbeaten to end crush Celtics' dream of landing a record tenth title in a row. And now Andy Halliday has revealed that the players would place a daily wager with each other, waiting on keen golfer McAllister to perform his signature move.

"There used to be a sweepstake every day at Rangers about how long it would take Gary Mac to do an invisible golf swing," Halliday told the Open Goal podcast. "He loved his golf, so all the boys would [put down] 10:05, 10:06, and boys would put actual money into it. So as soon as you go in, every warm-up would be two laps of the training pitch, and then in with the sports scientists. But all the boys would just be watching Gary Mac and the staff talking, and just out of nowhere you'd see him like that."

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