Craig Brown in touching tribute to Rangers icon Andy Goram as 'heartbroken' former boss reveals cherished letter

Former Scotland manager Craig Brown admitted he was “heartbroken” as he passed on his best wishes to Andy Goram.

The Rangers legend revealed to the Daily Record yesterday how he has been given six months to live after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.

Goram knocked back chemotherapy after being told it would only give him an extra 12 weeks.

The 58-year-old won 43 caps for Scotland, many under Brown ’s management in the 1990s including all three fixtures at Euro 96, and the pair were inducted into the Hampden Hall of Fame at the same time in 2010.

Goram's international career ended abruptly when he left a training camp in America ahead of the 1998 World Cup in France just 15 days before the tournament was due to begin.

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Rival Jim Leighton had been handed the number one jersey for the competition.

But Brown has rubbished claims there was ever a fall out with the man dubbed The Goalie.

Indeed the 81-year-old insists a special bond between the two has remained in place ever since that highly sensitive moment in the States in which Goram left the camp but not before opening his heart to his manager in a letter which Brown still has to this day.

Speaking at Hampden on Monday, Brown said: “I’m