Everton legend Duncan Ferguson answers readers' questions about Rangers, regrets and Goodison memories

'I've had a taste of being Everton manager and I want another go at it'

- Everton legend Duncan Ferguson

I served you many times in The Tally Ho pub in Dundee in the early 1990s. You were always a gent. How did your reputation as a hard man sit with you when, for me, you clearly differ from that in real life? Fionan Lynch

I'm not a hard man. I've always tried to be nice to people but sometimes I've been backed into a corner and got myself into a wee bit of trouble. I played the game aggressively but I don't think I was even the toughest in any of the dressing rooms I've been in. I don't see myself as a tough guy. But it's followed me everywhere. A night to gain a reputation and a lifetime to get rid of it. And I do remember the Tally Ho. It was a good pub. Karaoke on a Tuesday. All the YTS lads would pile in after we'd done our jobs, mopping the floors and all that stuff. We were from all over Scotland and all got moved into digs. We were 16, man. What do you do? Right to the boozer. There was no proof of ID then!

Any regrets from the Rangers years? Denny

Oh Christ, aye. I never gave myself the best chance to break through at Rangers. I wasn't training. An amateur player would have been training harder than me. I just wasn't dedicated enough. I thought I'd made it. Football was easy to me. I'd never had an injury, I came through at Dundee United and I was ripping it up. But then you start to get injured. You're going on nights out, you're not playing and it all starts to mount up. There's a wee bit of trouble creeping into my life now. I've got massive regrets that I never gave myself the best crack at it because I was a Rangers boy,

I supported Rangers when I was younger, but there is always a silver lining. If I'd cracked it at Rangers I wouldn't have come to Everton.

I understand your anger at not being supported more by the Scottish Football Association, but do you regret not playing more for Scotland for the fans? Martin Scott