Frank McAvennie on Celtic, Graeme Souness & Stringfellows

Graeme Souness wanted to sign Scotland room-mate Frank McAvennie for Rangers - but the lifelong Celtic supporter could not contemplate moving to Ibrox.

McAvennie could not accept Souness' offer but told Celtic that Rangers were going to provide his lawyer so the board at Celtic Park would upgrade the calibre of his defence.The former forward also recalls that George Graham's failure to sign him for Arsenal led to him bringing in Ian Wright instead - and that Celtic wanted to re-sign Charlie Nicholas rather than himself before Billy McNeill stepped in.

"David Pleat was the manager and he was great," McAvennie recalls of the time he was about to leave his first club St Mirren. "He phoned my mum and dad and everything, so the deal was all done."St Mirren took us all down to Luton and the directors and the lawyers all came in. And this big guy walked in and slapped me on the back of the head."I thought 'what an arrogant sod'.

"I didn't play football when I was a kid - not until I was 19," he admits. "I used to just go and watch Celtic home and away.

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