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The BS Word

Gordon Ramsay's tale of being signed as a 16yo footballer to Glasgow Rangers now comes unstuck.

gordon-ramsayANDREW DENTON: ….you were going to be a professional soccer player, and at 16 you started training with the Rangers, knee injury meant you couldn’t do it.

GORDON RAMSAY: Yeah I started playing serious at 15 and invited up, offered a contract, signed, and then, you know, had a huge incident on a horrendous tackle. Smashed my cartilage in three places. Got better, six months later, tore a crucial ligament, back in plaster for six months. So the whole thing was a lot more difficult. Naturally left footed, couldn’t kick with my right foot and then released you know [clap] instantly. So it was it was painful, but I had to get on with it and sort of move on.

That’s what Gordon Ramsay told Enough Rope last year. It’s one of many times he has spoken about having a soccer career with the Glasgow Rangers.

But now the News of the World reports that Rangers historian, Robert McElroy, said Ramsay never signed for the team, never played in senior matches and was never offered a contract.

“It’s all complete and utter nonsense,” McElroy told the newspaper.

In his 2006 autobiography, Humble Pie, Ramsay even wrote: “Outside the stadium, you’d be signing things like pillow cases and the side of prams, and families would turn up with their kids to have their trainers signed.”

A club spokesman said Ramsay had trialled with the team and played a testimonial game, but failed to secure a contract.

Rangers coach Archie Knox, who the chef blamed for “dumping” him from the club, wasn’t even with the club at the time of Ramsay’s claims.

“He must be a very confused individual. I was the manager of Dundee at the time,” Knox said.

“The first time I ever saw Gordon Ramsay was in 1996 when he launched his first book . . . but he didn’t know me from Adam because we’d never met.”

In his autobiography, the chef claimed he started playing in testimonial games at Rangers and was included on the first-team sheet.

Ramsay’s representative said the chef had no comment to make on the story.

Source: Herald Sun, ABC

5 Responses

  1. Sounds a bit like a case of ‘kick him while he’s down’ ! Rangers have had years to dispute this story, and have never mentioned it until now ???
    I’ve heard Gordon speak about his ‘potential’ football career numerous times in interviews, and he never made himself out to be a great player, just a kid who had the chance to try out for a club and unfortunately got injured.
    In the long run, it doesn’t really matter, he’s an amazing chef and business man and it certainly won’t put me off watching any of his shows.

  2. Good point Dick. I really really hope though that Gordon Ramsey would not be so unbelievable stupid as to make up something like this that can easily be disproven 🙂

  3. I would say Gordon Ramsay has been talking about this in interviews for the past 8 years. It was printed in his autobiography in 2006. It’s on his Wikipedia page.

    Rangers F.C have only just now gotten around to commenting about this?

    I think it’s Rangers that are telling the porkies. Maybe drumming up some publicity cause they’re not doing too well in the league? 😀

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