Ally McCoist has opened up on the Rangers squad painting their ping pong table blue.

The Ibrox icon is well-known for enjoying a good laugh away from the pitch.

However, that was exactly why the then manager Graeme Souness banned his Rangers stars from taking part in 18-holes. 

As a result, McCoist revealed he and his Gers teammates replaced that fun with regular games of table tennis. 

It should be a surprise to no one that the colour of the table was immediately changed, though.

The topic was raised as McCoist spoke about his love for golf and poked fun at Souness for changing his opinions of the game.

McCoist told talkSPORT: "I can get round, I wouldn't say I'm quite good. But I enjoy it, I think it's a great game. We played it a lot as players on days off and things like that.

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"It's brilliant because I remember digging Graeme Souness up. He used to fine us if we played golf because he hated it at Liverpool. They didn't play golf and he came up to Rangers and stopped it.

"But that was fine because we used to nip down the coast and nobody would see us, and get away here, there and everywhere.

"And the irony of it now is he absolutely loves his golf. I play with him in Portugal, he's a competitive so-and-so as you can imagine.

"I think it was a Liverpool thing, I know they didn't like it at Liverpool and he just kind of brought it up with him."

Asked what else the players would get up to if they couldn't play golf, he continued: "Table tennis. We had a table tennis table. It was brilliant, incredibly competitive. Oh dear me.

"The first thing we did was paint it blue. It was green but we painted the table blue.

"Some of the games we used to have. Happy days."

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