Gordon Strachan has revealed the moment a furious Rangers fan confronted him...at a petrol garage.

The former Celtic manager had been filling up his car - with his wife and mother-in-law in the vehicle - at Bothwell services when the altercation took place.

Strachan was not long in the job at Celtic and had just fallen to a 3-1 defeat against Rangers in his first time in the dugout in the powderkeg fixture.

And after the result - when Strachan was branded "Chesney" by Rangers fans - the manager faced a barrage of verbal insults at the garage.

It began with a young Rangers fan chanting about the result and Strachan with "poor language" but quickly escalated with the boy's father fuming at Strachan.

The then Celtic boss revealed he told the boy he was "sorry" for him and blamed the "moron who brought you up" for the abuse.

That's when it "kicked off" with the father furiously confronting Strachan over his remark.

The former Celtic boss told the Off the Record podcast: “It was after my first one [Rangers vs Celtic match]. I had just found out I was Chesney and life wasn’t that great!

"I had my mother-in-law and wife in the car and I was filling up at Bothwell service station.

"And there was this kid, about 12, shouting things from his car window while his dad was filling up with petrol. His dad thought this was hilarious.

"He was singing about the score, singing about me, singing about Chesney again – which I got at that point, I knew who Chesney was!

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“Anyway, his language was poor. And his dad was standing laughing.

"So I looked at this kid and said, ‘I do feel sorry for you son. I don’t blame you for all this, I blame the moron who brought you up!’

"His dad then raced into me, ‘You’re this and you’re that.' And I said, ‘Just a second, I’m just filling my car up with petrol here. You started this – you and your son!’

“So it all kicked off but that was the only time really I’ve been bothered in Glasgow.

"People talk about the hostility but I never found it too bad. Maybe that’s just because they felt sorry for me, the Rangers supporters!”