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‘Phenomenal’: Rangers and Celtic legends make cut as Ibrox icon McCoist names all-time XI
It’s no surprise that a host of Rangers legends have made Ally McCoist’s all-time top XI, but he’s also made room for two famous figures who have worn the hoops.
The Ibrox icon included a total of five former Rangers men in his team, alongside the likes of deadly Milan striker Marco van Basten and his team-mates Paolo Maldini and Franco Baresi. They were joined by Celtic heroes Sir Kenny Dalglish and Danny McGrain.
In order to have been eligible for selection, the players had to have either played alongside or against McCoist during the Scotsman’s illustrious career.
Although the 58-year-old wore the shirts of St Johnstone, Sunderland and Kilmarnock and won 61 caps for Scotland, it was his time at Rangers that defined his career.
Over the course of 581 games for the club, he scored 355 goals and accumulated 10 league titles, as well as consecutive European Golden Shoe awards in 1992 and 1993.
As revealed on , his full line-up was:
Andy Goram (goalkeeper)
Paolo Maldini (left-back)
Jurgen Kohler (centre-back)
Franco Baresi (centre-back)
Danny McGrain (right-back)
Davie Cooper (left midfield)
Graeme Souness (central midfielder)
Paul Gascoigne (central midfielder)
Brian Laudrup (right midfield)
Marco van Basten (centre-forward)
Sir Kenny Dalglish (centre-forward)
Unsurprisingly, he picked his former Rangers boss Walter Smith as manager.
On Baresi, who he encountered on international duty, McCoist said: “Baresi was phenomenal. The Italians are the only back four I ever played against that had me thinking about them, rather than the other way around.
“Baresi used to have a signal and the entire back four ‘bang’ moved out and you were offside. They were fantastic.”
Of Souness, who played alongside McCoist at Ibrox before becoming his manager and eventually joining Liverpool, he said: “I’ve never played with anybody that could change a game quite like Graeme. He could make a pass, score a goal, make a tackle, he could upset the opposition, the fans.
“He knew how to manage a game, he knew what was needed.”