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Inside the boozy Rangers bond behind trophy era as Richard Gough reveals Hells Angels chaos and epic bar bill

The team that drinks together, wins together.

Although Richard Gough might credit Ian Durrant with coming up with that motto, it did become synonymous with the Rangers skipper during the Ibrox club’s historic run towards nine in a row. Signed by Graeme Souness from Spurs one year into a tumultuous Ibrox revolution, Gough would go on to lead the club to nine successive league titles while also lifting three Scottish Cups and six League Cups.

And, speaking in the latest episode of our headline making Off the Record podcast, Gough has lifted the lid on the boozy team bonding sessions which underpinned a decade of success - and led to him and his team-mates being banned from the sleepy seaside town after being caught up in a bar brawl with a gang of Hells Angels. Gough said: “If we’d lost a game I would take the boys out. I would say to Walter that we were going out to release some energy, or whatever it was.

“He would give us the day off the next day and say, ‘Just make sure you behave yourselves!’ We used to go to a restaurant called La Parmigiana on Great Western Road and get it shut off for the day. It was brilliant.

“All the foreigners used to come out as well and we would be there from one o’clock in the afternoon. Me, being the captain, had to stay there until two or three o’clock in the morning! That was my duty!

“But we got a lot of issues sorted out, let’s say. Boys who maybe didn’t like each other ended up liking each other, stuff like that. Because people think there are 20 people in a dressing room and you all like each other.

"It’s not normally like that. Everyone is different. But once we were out on the field we were all on the same page.”

In the podcast, Gough recalls one particular incendiary flash point

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