Ryan Christie reveals terrifying Barcelona mugging but he refused to part with Inverness Scottish Cup medal

Ryan Christie got mugged in Barcelona but he refused to give up his Scottish Cup winner’s medal he won with Inverness.

It was a scrap for the Highlanders to make history and lift the Scottish Cup for the first time but Christie had an even bigger fight to keep his prized possession. The Scotland star was part of the successfu l Caley Jags team that famously saw off this weekend’s semi-final opponents, Falkirk, in the 2015 final. It was the local boy’s first major trophy and he wore his medal with pride from the moment he got it at Hampden until he had to reluctantly take it off at the airport a few days later to get through the metal detectors at security for his summer break.

Christie stuck it in his wash bag for safe-keeping and it was just as well he did. When he was in the Catalan capital with his girlfriend, they got robbed but he still had his medal hidden and managed to cling on to his prized possession for dear life. The Bournemouth star said: “That was the first medal and it is probably my favourite one to be fair. It takes pride of place in my collection.

“I actually had a scare with it. I got it at Hampden and I never took it off until the Wednesday, when I went on holiday to Barcelona with my girlfriend. I had to take it off because we were going through security. I took it off and left it in my wash bag for the holiday because I thought it would be safe there.

“Bizarrely, we ended up getting mugged in Barcelona. They took a lot of me and my girlfriend’s stuff but all I remember at the time was holding on to my wash bag. That was the one thing they weren’t getting. They could have everything else but they weren’t getting the medal.”

The game itself proved to be something of an anti-climax for the young