Global TV superstar chef Gordon Ramsay has been speaking about the injury which brutally ended his footballing career as a teenager with Rangers.
The TV giant was speaking to the High Performance Podcast about his career in football and how different things might’ve been had it happened for him at Ibrox.
Gordon Ramsay was on the books at Rangers as a teenager and was a highly-rated young defender before a devastating cruciate ligament injury put him on the “scrap heap”.
“I was fit as a fiddle at 6ft 2, naturally left-footed, very few individuals got past me,” Ramsay said.
“I was a steam train, I remember playing a testimonial for the first team, I got my first call up, I remember Coisty had just broken into the first team, he was playing for Scotland U21s, I was 18 at the time.
“All of a sudden, you are in this amazing team, you are on the sheet, your name is there, number three on the back of the shirt.
“I went in for this 50/50 tackle and it was crunch. I laid there in such pain, I tore my cruciate ligament and smashed my cartilage.
“Then we didn’t have private healthcare, you didn’t get whisked off to Germany for the latest surgeon, you were on the rubbish heap, the scrap heap. Because there were four, five guys behind me instantly to take my place.”
Gordon Ramsay opens up on pain of Rangers injury
Speaking about the situation, Gordon Ramsay claims he was so devastated that his Rangers and footballing career was over he turned his back on the game.
Avoiding results, deliberately evading the news and trying to cope with the devastation of not making it at Rangers or in football, the story is as old as time when it comes to the Beautiful Game.
“I mean (it was) really painful, brutally painful,” said Gordon Ramsay. “Especially when your mates are making it and they are progressing and you are seeing the headlines.
“You are purposely not watching the news, you are purposely not finding out the scores at five to five on a Saturday afternoon, because you want to move away from that.”
The latest Rangers comments of Gordon Ramsay come against the backdrop of the legendary chef opening a new restaurant at Ibrox Stadium.
Whilst it didn’t work out for Gordon Ramsay at Rangers, the chef is one of the globe’s most popular and recognisable TV personalities and it’s clear that the situation at Ibrox was a huge driving force in his career.
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