Hell broke loose like Wild West

DUNCAN Ferguson, who stopped drinking at 37, said any time there had been trouble in his life, booze had been involved.

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He had been in a few scraps before an infamous incident at the Royal Hotel in Anstruther, a quiet fishing village on the Fife coast, when he was 21. Now 53, he says: "Like a big, daft softie, I was too easily led astray."

He was buying a round when a lad with them got into a confrontation with another boy.

As Ferguson split them up, a big man on a stool at the bar got involved. Ferguson said they did not want any trouble but the man replied: "Well, I'll f***ing give you...