John Brown led the tributes to the late Andy Goram, naming his former Rangers teammate as merely the very best the nation will ever produce.
Devastated Ibrox icon ‘Bomber’ mentioned he believed Goram at his peak was one of many high goalkeepers on the planet. Goram handed away on the age of 58 yesterday morning following a brief battle with oesophageal most cancers. Brown was by the Scottish soccer legend’s bedside on the St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie. ‘Bomber’ mentioned: “ Andy Goram was only a genius. He was a grasp of the technical and positional aspect of goalkeeping. That actually made up for his relative lack of peak. In my eyes he'll go down as the best Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper of all time. Individuals will say I’m biased, maybe. However what he achieved within the sport far surpasses anybody else and his assortment of world class saves had been unbeatable.
"He ought to’ve performed much more than 43 Scotland video games, too. He was the grasp of his craft.
“On the time of that Champions League run in 1992, beating Leeds within the Battle of Britain and enjoying Marseille, I believe he’d go down as the most effective on the planet.
“I keep in mind everybody speaking about Peter Schmeichel at Man United on the time however he would throw within the odd aim from time to time.
“In the meantime, for us, The Goalie was producing it towards Rudi Voller, Alen Boksic, Gianluca Vialli, so many nice European strikers.
“Time after time he was in a position to pull off saves that folks couldn’t imagine.
“When he wasn’t there for Rangers, no disrespect to others, however it had us extra on edge as a staff, it made us really feel like dropping a bit deeper to guard our keeper.
“As a defender, we had been at all times felt snug when The Goalie was in. A few of the back-ups through the years had been good. Andy Goram was nice.”