11 h. ago 'I was Everton targetman on the outside but inside I was the target', says Duncan Ferguson

"Inside, I was the target. And I was terrified. I’d just lost my appeal against a three-month sentence for what the courts claimed was an assault on another player, Raith Rovers’ John McStay, at Ibrox Park on 16 April 1994. I hardly grazed the boy, I promise you."

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14 h. ago DUNCAN FERGUSON How Everton fans and a young boy called Wayne Rooney helped me survive prison nightmare

Duncan Ferguson was released from his prison nightmare to return to the Premier League and a welcome he didn’t expect, after six weeks where misery and menace filled the air

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14 h. ago Duncan Ferguson's "blood ran cold" as prison guards marched him to be banged up in Barlinnie

"Outside, I was Big Dunc. Striker. Everton and Scotland targetman. Inside, I was the target. And I was terrified."

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14 h. ago Duncan Ferguson reveals 'frightening' first question he was asked on first prison walk with inmates

Former Rangers star Duncan Ferguson became inmate number 12718 during his stay at Glasgow’s Barlinnie prison - now he recounts his first walk outside his cell

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14 h. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson feared he'd be slashed in Barlinnie jail after con asked chilling question

"A boy wearing the regulation red shirt with white stripes stood there, holding a pair of scissors. How would I react?"

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14 h. ago DUNCAN FERGUSON I feared being slashed inside Britain's most notorious prison

Everton hero Duncan Ferguson was sentenced to three months at the infamous Barlinnie prison in Glasgow - now he speaks for the first time on his terrifying time inside

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36 h. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson regrets telling David Beckham to get lost

Breaking the British transfer record in 1993 when he switched Tannadice for Ibrox. Ferguson then went on to build a reputation as a fearsome striker with Everton before a spell with Newcastle United.

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36 h. ago Rangers legend Duncan Ferguson insists he's "no hard man" as lifts lid on time in notorious Barlinnie jail

Duncan’s autobiography, Big Dunc, is released next week, a searingly honest account of his career and his life, including a painful reflection on the 44 days he spent in Barlinnie.

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39 h. ago Duncan Ferguson wasn't toughest man in dressing room as he opens up on hard

He once beat a burglar so badly, his wife thought he had killed him. He has four assault convictions, the last of which landed him in one of Britain’s toughest jails

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45 h. ago I witnessed US cruelty as a Guantánamo lawyer. Trump’s deportations are disturbingly familiar | Mark Denbeaux

The government’s claims against detainees were paper-thin and the process riddled with errors. Now history is repeatingGuantánamo is a horror Americans have tried to forget. But the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) deportation regime resembles so many of Guantánamo’s evils that it compels comparison. That comparison reveals significant differences but frightening similarities.On 11 January 2002, the detention facility opened. The first detainees, in orange jumpsuits, hobbled along in a parade to show the press the success of the government in this battle of the “war on terror”.The detainee admits he was a cook’s assistant for Taliban forces in Narim, Afghanistan under the command of Haji Mullah Baki.Mark Denbeaux is professor emeritus at Seton Hall Law School and for 18 years represented four detainees held in Guantánamo who had endured torture by the CIA Continue reading...

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64 h. ago King Charles issues moving personal cancer message about 'daunting' and 'frightening' diagnosis as he reveals he took inspiration from late Dame Deborah James

In his most 'poignant' and 'deeply personal' words about the illness, the monarch also revealed he had taken inspiration from the late Dame Deborah James .

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2 w. ago Duncan Ferguson punched wrong player he thought was Liverpool fan in 'not finest moment'

Former Premier League hardman Duncan Ferguson has admitted he punched the wrong opponent during a match, believing him to be a Liverpool fan

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2 w. ago Duncan Ferguson got red card for singing at 'baldy' ref after 'Tarzan' snitched on him

Duncan Ferguson is one of the hardest players to ever play in the Premier League, but one of his red cards was for anything but violent conduct or a dangerous tackle

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2 w. ago I bawled my eyes out when Rangers got rid of me and I've never looked out for their results since

Duncan Ferguson has opened up on his tumultuous two years with Gers on and off the pitch

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2 w. ago Hashem Abedi's horrific attack on three prison guards leaves us with one chilling question... what do we do with him now? DANIEL HANNAN

I want you to think about the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing. Really think about it. I want you to picture those girls, teenagers and pre-teens making plans and fussing over what to wear.

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2 w. ago El Salvador president refuses to order return of wrongly deported US man

Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court rulingThe president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago El Salvador president refuses to return wrongly deported man with US protected status

Trump officials claim they’re not legally bound to bring Kilmar Abrego García back despite supreme court rulingThe president of El Salvador said in a meeting with Donald Trump in the White House on Monday that he would not order the return of a Maryland man who was deported in error to a Salvadorian mega-prison.“The question is preposterous,” Nayib Bukele said in the Oval Office on Monday, where he was welcomed by Trump and spoke with the president and members of his cabinet. “How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States? I’m not going to do it.” Continue reading...

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last month David Moyes: James Tarkowski lucky not to see red for Alexis Mac Allister tackle

Former Everton striker Duncan Ferguson branded the tackle a ‘straight red all day’.

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