FORMER Rangers striker Duncan Ferguson has said that he launched a foul-mouthed rant at football legend David Beckham and told him to "get tae f***".
Duncan Ferguson was known as a "hard man" during his playing career and has opened up about the incident with the Manchester United legend.
Speaking to the That Peter Crouch Podcast, Ferguson, 53, said: "I blanked David Beckham, I blanked him.
"He came up to me to shake my hand and I told him to get tae f**k.
"David Beckham, icon, I couldn't have laced his boots, a world-class player who had won everything.
"But I'm just playing up to that stupid thing, the 'I don't shake people's hands' thing.
"Oh my god, he just looked at me, he was on the pitch, stood there and said 'Duncan?'"
Host Peter Crouch said: "Do you regret that now? Telling David Beckham to get tae f**k?"
Ferguson answered honestly: "I wish I could meet him now, I'd be dragging the shirt off him!
"He'd be blanking me and asking 'who's that?'"
When he moved from Dundee United to Rangers for £4 million in 1993, Ferguson became Britain’s record signing.
He then went on to build a reputation as a fearsome striker with Everton and a spell with Newcastle United.
Duncan's recent time as Inverness Caledonian Thistle's manager ended last year as the club entered administration.
Ferguson also recently opened up about the experience of his first night behind bars in Glasgow’s Barlinnie Prison for assault.
Speaking candidly in his new book, Ferguson reflects on that night in October 1995, a moment he describes as the “longest night” of his life.
He wrote: “I believe I’m a brave man, tough physically and mentally.
“But when I was led handcuffed into HMP Barlinnie on October 11, 1995, my blood ran cold.”
Returning to Scotland from Merseyside to serve the sentence, Duncan said it felt as though his life was suddenly at risk.
He recalled: “ I was entering Britain’s most notorious prison with its huge stone walls, barbed wire wound around the top and forbidding metal doors that had all the charm of the brass plate on a coffin.
"Outside, I was Big Dunc. Striker. Everton and Scotland targetman."
He hints at bias within the legal system at the time of his sentencing, writing: "It happened while I’d been playing for Rangers in Glasgow, and I just ended up feeling like some people in the Scottish judiciary didn’t like the club.
"They were probably delighted to see me banged up in Barlinnie."
