Rangers players past and present pay tributes to Andy Goram at ‘unique’ funeral

Andy Goram got the farewell he requested as former Rangers team-mates Ally McCoist and John Brown paid tribute to him at a funeral service in Glasgow.

Former Ibrox director Donald Findlay QC also spoke at the service at Wellington Church in the west end of the city.

Sir Alex Ferguson, the man who gave goalkeeper Goram his Scotland debut and signed him for Manchester United, was among the mourners at the church in the environs of the University of Glasgow.

The former Scotland international footballer and cricketer died aged 58 earlier this month following a short battle with oesophageal cancer.

Before arriving at the church, the funeral cortege drove by Ibrox Stadium, where hundreds of people lined both sides of Edmiston Drive to pay their respects.

Floral tributes were left on the main steps of the stadium, including one in the shape of a pair of goalkeeper gloves and others that spelled out ‘Goalie’ and ‘Papa’.

A lone piper played ‘Scotland the Brave’ as Goram’s coffin was carried up the steps of the church. McCoist, Brown and former goalkeeper Alan Rough, who played alongside Goram for Scotland and Hibernian, were among those carrying the coffin into the church.

Former Scotland manager Craig Brown felt the service was a “one-off”.

Brown said: “He was a guy who was loved by everyone. Even opposing players and managers, they respected Andy Goram. He was an outstanding goalkeeper.

“Not only that, he was a wonderful personality. He wrote me a letter, which I still have, when he was leaving the (training) camp in America, and it’s a delightfully written piece of prose, and from his heart. And I think you could sense today that he was in everyone’s heart.

“It was a superb celebration. The sincerity, the touch of humour, it