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Artur Boruc loved playing the Old Firm panto villain during his five-year spell at Celtic .

The Polish goalkeeper was as much a target for Rangers fans as he was a hero to the Hoops during a time when the Parkhead men won three successive titles from 2005.

Boruc was given a formal caution after being accused of angering the Rangers support by blessing himself during a derby clash at Ibrox in 2006 as his volatile relationship with the Light Blue legions reached an explosive peak.

But his fondness for running the gauntlet of the Rangers support should have become clear in the hours after his first ever taste of a Parkhead Old Firm.

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The madcap keeper played his part in a 3-0 victory in the east end of Glasgow as Gordon Strachan 's side began a march towards the title.

And, as fellow ex-Hoops star Paul Caddis recalls, Boruc was in no mood to shy away from the fury of the travelling support as he made his way home from the match on foot and alone through the notorious Rangers stronghold of Bridgeton.

Remembering his favourite Boruc stories, Caddis told Si Ferry on Open Goal : "I remember the first time he played Rangers at Celtic Park and - remember after you played you used to go to Gate Two and wait on your car coming round - well everyone was rushing out of Gate Two and I thought 'what's going on here?'

"Somebody had radioed up to security and said Artur Boruc was walking through Bridgeton on his own. Straight after an Old Firm game!

"So they jumped down in a minibus and got him.

"He didn't know but he didn't care.

"And there were other (stories). At half time and he would have a fag in the dressing room. A fag - like you can't smell it!"