A FORMER Celtic star has opened up on his fun and games filled holidays with Ally McCoist and other former players.
And the Rangers hero has been praised by a colleague for his constant hard work and being ‘the nicest person’.
Frank McAvennie was discussing his 1980s/90s Old Firm rival on his podcast Let Me Be Frank.
When asked about Coisty being given an OBE last year, McAvennie joked: “Don’t we know it!
“I’ve got to curtsey every time… I’d like to say every time I see him but I don’t see him much now.
“We’re all in a group chat, we slag each other and all that kind of stuff, you can imagine that group chat’s quite good fun.
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“Big Derek Whyte takes us all over [to Dubai], Scotland v England and we play a game, 7-a-side game and a golf day.
“And a drinking competition obviously!
“Me and Coisty played a couple years ago, two of us up front and, God rest him, Andy Goram was still alive.
“He says it was the first time he’d ever seen two holding strikers!
“We were certainly not moving very quickly or very far.”
He was recounting this story to Shebahn Aherne, Ally’s talkSPORT colleague and a lifelong Hoops fan.
Speaking of her radio job in London, ex-Celt McAvennie said: “There’s a lot of Jocks down there which is good.
“But tell Coisty to answer his phone! He’s an absolute nightmare!”
Aherne joked: “I said recently, I think I’m turning into Ally’s receptionist.
“I’ll tell him ‘so and so is looking for you’, and he’ll go ‘ok, ok, ok’.
“Then the next day I’m like ‘have you heard from them?’
“He’s so busy, the guy does not stop. He’s on the go all the time.
“I think when he does get his time I think the phone has to go off so he has a bit of Ally time.
“He’s relentless, and he’s such a good egg.”
A regular pundit and commentator alongside his radio duties, the former Gers player and manager never seems to have a day off.
But his fellow presenter Aherne added: “And he’s always at TalkSport. I’ll be watching the game, TNT, Champions League. 10 o’clock. Cool, Ally must not be in tomorrow.
“Ally’s on the radio at 6 o’clock!
“I think I can work hard, I can do any shift going.
“You do it and you do it and you keep moving forward.
“Then I look at Ally. He’s done games whatever other side of the country and driven back in the middle of the night to go straight on air.
“He just loves his football and loves his job so much.”
And she doesn’t let her footballing allegiances stand in the way with her colleague and friend.
She continued: “It’s so weird even now, some days I’m sitting in the studio and I’m like ‘Ally was in our house growing up’.
“We’re a Celtic family, but Ally was on the TV, Ally was on the back page, Ally was on the front page.
“He’s a legend isn’t he? An absolute legend.
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“That word gets thrown about often but Ally is that.
“Then you meet him and you work with him and he’s the nicest person.”
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