Andrew Lewis Goram was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Andrew Lewis Goram was a Scottish footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Andy Goram began his career at West Bromwich Albion but was released as a teenager.
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Andy Goram then joined Oldham Athletic in 1981 and spent nearly seven years with the club, making 195 Football League appearances.
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Andy Goram's father had briefly been a goalkeeper with the Edinburgh club.
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Andy Goram served as club captain for the majority of his stay in the capital, and in 1988 achieved the unusual feat of scoring a goal in a Premier Division match, against Morton, with a long kick.
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Andy Goram soon settled at Ibrox and established himself by playing in all 55 of Rangers competitive games and keeping 26 clean sheets during his first season there.
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Andy Goram played in all ten of their European fixtures that season, conceding seven goals.
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Andy Goram won both the Scottish Football Writers and Scottish Professional Footballers Association player of the year awards.
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Andy Goram underwent knee surgery in the summer of 1993 and missed most of the following season whilst recovering, making ten appearances.
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Andy Goram had brief spells at Notts County and Sheffield United before signing for Motherwell in January 1999.
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In July 2002, Andy Goram signed for Queen of the South, with whom he won the Scottish Challenge Cup.
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In 2010, Andy Goram was inducted into the Scottish Football Hall of Fame.
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Andy Goram made his debut in that game on 16 October 1985, coming on in the second half as a substitute for Jim Leighton.
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Andy Goram travelled to Mexico in the summer of 1986 as a member of Scotland's World Cup squad, although he was third choice behind Leighton and Alan Rough and did not play in any of Scotland's three games.
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Andy Goram played in all eight of Scotland's qualifying ties for Euro 1992, helping them qualify for the finals of the tournament held in Sweden.
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Andy Goram kept his place in the side and played in Scotland's next three qualifying ties; however, in August 1995, days before a qualifying match against Greece, Andy Goram withdrew from the squad stating that he was not "mentally attuned" to play.
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Jim Leighton played against Greece and kept his place in the team for the remaining two qualifying matches, although Andy Goram did play for the last 17 minutes of a friendly match against Sweden in between those final two ties.
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Andy Goram had a long-running rivalry with Leighton for the goalkeeping position in the Scotland team.
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Andy Goram worked as a goalkeeping coach with various clubs after retiring from playing.
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Andy Goram took on part-time coaching duties when he returned to Motherwell in 2002.
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Andy Goram later coached at Airdrie United in March 2006 and then Clyde in February 2008.
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In January 2012, Andy Goram helped Hamilton Academical with their goalkeeping coach crisis.
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Andy Goram returned to professional football in January 2015, when he was appointed goalkeeping coach at Dunfermline Athletic, until May 2015 when he left the position.
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Andy Goram later had a spell at Airdrieonians as goalkeeping coach from May 2016 until October 2016, leaving the club following a spate of managerial and coaching changes.
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Andy Goram played for Penicuik, Kelso, West Lothian and Uddingston in Scottish cricket leagues.
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Andy Goram is the only person to have played in a first-class cricket match and a full international football match for Scotland.
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In May 2016, Andy Goram played for a Scotland over-50s team against Lancashire over-50s.
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Andy Goram was born on 13 April 1964 and raised in England, although he was brought up self-identifying as Scottish.
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Andy Goram was the son of Edinburgh-born Lewis Goram, who had played professionally in goal in the 1940s and 1950s for Leith Athletic, Hibernian, Third Lanark and Bury.
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Andy Goram denied the accusations, said that he supported the Northern Ireland peace process and threatened to sue his accusers.
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Andy Goram was accused of associations with the loyalist Billy Wright and of wearing a black armband against Celtic four days after his murder; he said that the armband was in memory of an aunt who died four months earlier.
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In September 2007, Andy Goram was assaulted at a fundraising dinner by a man who accused him of sectarianism; he condemned sectarianism and said he was "sick of being called a bigot for no reason".
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On 30 May 2022, it was announced that Andy Goram had been diagnosed with terminal oesophageal cancer and had been told he had six months to live.
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