Andy Goram's son says his dad was joking and smiling right up to the end as he paid an emotional tribute to his old man.
Danny revealed his dad was even still sending him down to the bookies to put on his horses in his final days. The Rangers legend died at St Andrew’s Hospice in Airdrie on Saturday, just weeks after being told he was terminally ill.
But despite his worsening condition, Danny said his dad was laughing and joking right up until the end. Paying tribute, his son hailed his "brave" father who "always kept a smile on their faces" before he passed away.
Danny told talkSPORT : "Even up until last week he was always joking and we were having laughs, he still made me go to the bookies to put on his lucky 15s most days. Just a brave, brave man, I couldn't imagine what he's gone through this past ten weeks. He didn't show us he was suffering and always kept a smile on our faces."
Manchester United fan Danny went on to reveal his pride at his father's glittering footballing career as he paid tribute.
He said: "I was very young when he played for Rangers. When I was 12 he was at Man United for a short spell, I'm a big Man United fan. So I was a very proud boy then at 12 years old, my dad got to play for them.
"Even to this day I still show the kids the videos of him on YouTube. He was Rangers' best ever, Scotland's best ever. I'm just very proud."
Danny went on to tell how the Gers Nine-In-A-Row hero surprised everyone by attending a benefit event in his name just weeks before he passed away.
Goram was only expected to participate through a video link due to his health, but the determined former goalkeeper managed to attend - and he soon had the crowd in stitches with his speech.
Danny said: "It was a Wednesday, not last week but the week before. A lad called Bobby Clark and Tam Cowan had organised a fundraiser for him at the Airdrie Working Men’s Club.
"My dad knew it was going on but hadn't been well for weeks. He wasn't at his best but he just popped up and said I'm going to that. If he wanted to do it he was going to do it. You know what my dad's like, if he gets something in his head he's going to do it.
"The next minute he's writing a speech, we got in there, the taxi’s waiting outside as we thought it was five minutes. The next minute he's asked me to put him on stage, he starts talking and telling stories, giving advice to people, he had the place in stitches, he had the place in tears. It was just a proud moment to see him do that.
"He said afterwards if he didn't do it he would've regretted it, it's what he loved doing. All his friends were there, all ex-players, some people in the crowd he knew well. I'm glad he got to do it as that what he loved doing."
Goram – nicknamed The Goalie – was diagnosed with stage four oesophageal cancer in April. It came after he thought he was suffering heartburn and indigestion.
The icon had been in the hospice for three weeks after he became too ill to be treated at home. Loved ones including Danny, ex-wife Miriam, Brown and former Gers striker Ally McCoist were with him in his final moments.
Danny admitted it was hard to watch his father's condition deteriorate in the last few weeks.
He said: "It's still very raw, it doesn't make it any easier. That last week, to see him in pain and in agony, just frustrated him what he couldn't do anymore. It was hard to watch. So when they offered him the extra medication he took it.
"He's been the bravest person I know for the past ten weeks and I think he just wanted to be pain free. The last two days he was at peace. We were all stood there with him telling stories, he'd still listen. Just to see him at peace was bittersweet, not be in pain anymore."
Danny continued by thanking the floods of messages of support his dad received from the footballing world before he passed away, as he revealed his dad's funeral details.
He said: "The funeral is likely to be two weeks today, the 18th or 19th. Rangers are obviously sorting a lot of that out which is great of them."
"Throughout the ten weeks he'd never seen so much love and support for someone that hadn't passed yet. Just floods of tributes, floods of support, flood of love, dinners getting organised for him.
"Everyone knows how much of a personality and how big a player he was, but you don't realise the love and support someone's going to get until something terrible like this happens."
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