Duncan Ferguson
"Some of my red cards were ridiculous – I don’t see myself as that person. One of them was for singing to a referee!"
Author: Matthew Ketchell
"Some of my red cards were ridiculous – I don’t see myself as that person. One of them was for singing to a referee!"
No Scotsman has more Premier League goals than Duncan Ferguson’s 68 for Everton and Newcastle. Nobody has more red cards, either, though Richard Dunne and Patrick Vieira tie with Ferguson’s eight. It’s believed by some – not least Ferguson himself – that the combative 6ft 4in forward could have broken Denis Law and Kenny Dalglish’s joint record of 30 goals for Scotland, had he not refused international selection from 1997 onwards. He did so in protest at treatment by the Scottish FA over his con...