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TIL that goalkeeper Andy Goram, Glasgow Rangers' greatest-ever goalkeeper, was greeted with the chant of "Two Andy Gorams, there's only two Andy Gorams" by his own fans after it was reported in the press that he had a mild form of schizophrenia

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