Scott Allan

So they retired you.

But given all that though, was it still a tough decision when you guys get to that stage?

It's all you've ever done, all you've ever known.

Did it take a bit of soul searching?

It did.

I mean, I was thinking about it for a few weeks and

I got to the point maybe just before Christmas time where I came home from training one day and I just said to my wife, that's enough.

But even though it's been a few months now that I've already made the decision, it still felt a wee bit surreal almost coming out and telling everyone basically and making it public.

So 18 years as a full-time football player, ever since I was 16, every day I'm working through a routine and it would be somewhere at a certain time.

I know when I've got a day on I know I've got a day off so I think that's only the real thing that's coming into realisation just now that all that's going to kind of change but still under no illusions whatsoever how lucky I was to have an 18 year career I've said it so many times the amount of

cause that Clyde One gets on a weekly basis and the percentage of them that grew up wanting to be a football player so I was obviously one of the lucky ones I managed to do so sorry so I'm still very very happy still feel very very privileged and just need to look ahead to what's next Yeah I was going to say because you've sort of had it planned for a few weeks in or a couple of months you had time almost to reflect already in sort of what that career was and what it meant to you

not so much at this moment in time because I still have been in the training ground still been involved in football on a daily basis but you never know it might come to a point where you can sort of look back at it and have 24 memories like I said I know how lucky I am so proud of it proud of the journey I had although it's obviously had many lows many highs but I think that's part of the football players journey so like I said just looking forward to what's next and

Yeah, of course.

I've said it before.

I get reminded on a weekly basis by my mum that when I was growing up, I never said I wanted to be a football player.

I said I wanted to play for Rangers.

So that's what I used to tell people all the time.

And when you have a stone's throw away from Copeland Road, you're always only ever going to support one team.

And obviously, at that point in time, I had contract offers for elsewhere, but I took the plunge by wanting to go and train with Rangers, wanting to go and try out with Rangers.

And obviously, thankfully, it led me to play with my boyhood club 152 times.