Goram's £1,000 puts him way down the cash league.
Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Publication Date:
06-NOV-96
Article Excerpt
Byline: SIMON HOUSTON
TO his thousands of Ibrox Park admirers, Andy Goram is worth every penny of the lucrative salary he receives as Rangers and Scotland goalkeeper.
His heroics between the posts have placed him among the top earners in Scottish football.
It was therefore with some surprise that those present at Linlithgow Sheriff Court on Monday appeared to hear different. The star became the latest in a long list of Ibrox players to be banned for drink-driving. He admitted being two and a half times over the limit when his Honda was stopped by police in October last year.
However, it was when, during his plea of mitigation, Mr Goram's lawyer informed the courtroom of his client's salary prior to a sentence being imposed, that onlookers showed surprise.
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Andy Goram earns only £1,000 a week?,' were the words on most people's lips after the case was completed.
Other players at Rangers have negotiated for a considerably higher salary than that figure. Add to that the sponsorship endorsements, win bonus payments - and the £30,000 collected when the club qualified for the European Champions League - and Goram's salary seemed meagre in comparison.
In the end the player was banned from driving for 18 months and fined £1,000, which Sheriff Graham Fleming was told was his weekly wage. He was given three months to pay.
It is the latest instalment in the long and confusing history of Andy Goram's financial problems, which many claim marriage breakdown and gambling debts have not helped.
He was divorced from his first wife Jacqui in 1989, around the time he was planning to leave Hibernian - he joined them from Oldham Athletic - to sign with Rangers. Four years later he was to hit the front pages once again for all the wrong reason, including allegations of drunkenness and gambling debts.
It was in 1993 that the player suffered a dreadful knee injury and was out of action for around 12 months. In what proved highly embarrassing for the club, it was revealed he had taken to drinking heavily.
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MILLIONAIRE footballer Lorenzo Amoruso was yesterday told he could pay a speeding fine at just £25 a week.
Rangers' Italian defender was fined £260 at Perth District Court and, to the amazement of onlookers, Justice of the Peace Neil Muir gave him almost three months to pay.
Amoruso, who did not appear in court, is understood to earn £1.3million a year, or £25,000 a week, at Ibrox. He was also given four points on his driving licencefor doing 92mph on the notorious A9.
By contrast, widowed Iris Gibson, 63, from Glasgow, who was also caught in a police speed trap on the road, yesterday agreed to pay her £100 fine immediately, despite living on a pension.
Amoruso was caught near Auchterarder, Perthshire, during a clampdown clamp·down on speeding prompted by more than a dozen deaths on the road this year.
The 30-year-old was on his way to meet friends for a shooting trip when he was stopped.
The star, who was driving a Rangers- registered £16,000 Honda. He said he had been guilty of a "lapse"
The former Fiorentina star said he had not noticed his speed rising as he drove towards Perth from his home in Bearsden, near Glasgow. In his letter to the court, Amoruso said: "This was a serious lapse of concentration for which I am very sorry. "I have been in Scotland for five years and this is the first time something like this has happened."
The player added that he could not reveal how much he earned. He wrote: "I am unable, for contractual reasons connected to my profession, to complete the information about means, but I understand this to be optional in any case."
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