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Our friends at the Scottish Daily Record have published a brand new Duncan Ferguson training ground bust up story.

Tales of the Scottish firebrand losing his rag with team-mates and managers alike are legendary ... Alessandro Pistone, David Moyes and Ruud Gullit have all featured.

But this one, as related by former Everton trainee Paddy Boyle who played for the Blues between 2005-2008, is a new one on us.

It includes a fitness coach, a table and receptionist Sue shouting 'No, Duncan!" and came out during a Daily Record podcast with the current Peterhead player Boyle.

(Image: Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

Speaking on the Tell Him He's Pele podcast, Boyle said: “Me and a boy from Ireland were up in the canteen and Big Dunc was sitting on his own and he was eating whatever he wanted and the fitness coach, an Italian guy Stefano was saying ‘you can’t eat that, you’re eating too much, you’re injured’ and Big Dunc goes ‘listen Stefano, say another word and I’m going to batter you’ and we’re sitting there thinking he’s kidding on.

"Stefano keeps chirping at him and he’s walking over to him and he goes ‘Stefano don’t take another step’ and I’m like that, ‘he’s going to go for him here’. Stefano keeps walking over and boom, he’s picked up a big table that sits about eight, he’s chucked the table at him and he’s running after him.

“Stefano’s on the floor now, he’s Italian but he’s a big soft guy, just a fitness coach and Ferguson's grabbed him by the throat. By now Sue the receptionist has heard what is going on and she’s running up the stairs shouting ‘no Duncan’. By now me and my mate are sitting there and we can’t believe what is going and there’s other stories like that. I believe he had a few like that with the gaffer himself. He was a nice guy but there was a switch there.”

Now he's hung up his boots and is concentrating on coaching, that switch is rarely flicked these days.

So we're told ...