Andy Goram

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Andy Goram
Personal information
Full name	Andrew Lewis Goram
Date of birth	April 13, 1964 (1964-04-13) (age 44)
Place of birth	Bury, England
Height	1.75m
Playing position	Goalkeeper (Retired)
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1981–1987 1987–1991 1991–1998 1998 1998 1998–2001 2001 2001 2001–2002 2002 2002–2003 2003–2004	Oldham Athletic Hibernian Rangers Notts County Sheffield United Motherwell → Manchester United (loan) Hamilton Academical Coventry City Oldham Athletic Queen of the South Elgin City	195 (0) 138 (1) 184 (0) 001 (0) 007 (0) 057 (0) 002 (0) 001 (0) 007 (0) 004 (0) 019 (0) 005 (0)
National team
1985–1998	Scotland	043 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Andrew Lewis Goram (born April 13, 1964 in Bury, Lancashire, England) is a former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He started his career with Oldham Athletic and Hibernian, but he is best remembered for playing for Rangers during the 1990s, when he earned the moniker "The Goalie".^[1] In 2001 he was voted Rangers' greatest ever goalkeeper by the Rangers fans.

After his time with Rangers he played for many clubs, most notably at Motherwell and a brief loan spell at Manchester United. Goram also represented Scotland at cricket.^[2]

[edit] Career

Goram joined Oldham Athletic as a teenager and spent seven years with the English club, winning his first Scotland caps and selection for the 1986 World Cup. In 1987, he moved to Hibernian, where his father had also been a goalkeeper, for a fee of £325,000. He was a great success at Hibs and achieved the remarkable feat of scoring a goal in a Premier Division match, against Morton.

He was sold to Rangers in 1991 for £1m and went on to help the club to win six of their nine Scottish League titles in a row between 1989 and 1997. He was also involved in Rangers' notable run in the European Cup in 1992-93, as they came within one point of reaching the final.

Goram was also an important player for the Scotland national team, winning 43 caps. He had a long-running rivalry with Jim Leighton for the goalkeeping position in the Scotland team. Craig Brown controversially selected Goram ahead of Leighton for Scotland's matches in Euro 96, despite the fact that Leighton had played in most of the qualifiers. Brown then selected Leighton for France 98, which prompted Goram to walk out of the squad completely.^[3]

After it was reported in the press that Goram had a mild form of schizophrenia, fans responded with a chorus of "Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams".^[4] This chant quickly gained popularity, and became the title of a book documenting humorous football chants.^[5]

While playing for Dumfries club Queen of the South in 2002, he won the Scottish Challenge Cup. This made Goram the first player to collect a full set of winners medals from the four senior Scottish football competitions.^[6]

Goram is now an after-dinner speaker and regularly attends Rangers' fan gatherings. He has also worked as a goalkeeping coach, joining Airdrie United in March 2006 and then Clyde in February 2008.^[7]

On 30 September 2008, Goram left Clyde, due to personal and business reasons.^[8]

[edit] Cricket

Also a cricketer, Goram represented the Scottish cricket team four times: twice (1989 and 1991) in the annual first-class game against Ireland and twice (again in 1989 and 1991) in the NatWest Trophy.

A left-handed batsman and right-arm medium-pace bowler, he never achieved any great success, his most significant act was probably to bowl England Test player Richard Blakey in a NatWest Trophy game against Yorkshire in 1989.

He was also a league cricketer, appearing as a wicket-keeper and batsman for various Oldham clubs in the Saddleworth League including Delph & Dobcross, Moorside and also East Lancashire Paper Mill in Radcliffe, Bury.

Recently Andy Goram has been making a cricketing comeback. ^[9] He has played for Freuchie Cricket Club and their most recent match was against the Sussex Ladies.

[edit] References

• Jeffrey, Jim (2005). The Men Who Made Hibernian F.C. since 1946, Tempus Publishing Ltd. ISBN 0-7524-3091-2. 

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Andy Goram profile at scottishfa.co.uk

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