By Berny Torre,Cameron Winstanley

Copyright dailystar

Rangers legend and TNT Sports pundit Ally McCoist was once left in agony due to guzzling too much wine . The 63-year-old revealed he suffered from the painful inflammatory arthritis condition, gout. But on reflection, the former Scotland international admitted that the terrible pain he suffered was self-inflicted. Instead of being purely a footballing problem, given his professional career spanned over two decades, McCoist’s love of the tipple once sparked the nasty swelling condition. Nicknamed the “disease of kings” due to its links with rich living, McCoist felt far from royalty coping with the condition . The TNT pundit, who turned 63 last week, said: “I had gout on my big toe. It was agony, it was one of the sorest things I have had in my life. It was from -potentially not looking after myself.” McCoist said his gout – a -condition that tormented Henry VIII – eventually cleared up. He added: “It just went away but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. There is no pain like it. It’s amazing. You are lying in bed and the sheets are agony on your toe. Work that one out. Nothing can touch it, it’s agony. “So eventually you have got to lie in bed with your foot hanging out the bed with that big, -throbbing red toe.” Gout is linked with drinking too much booze or eating too much red meat. The ailment sets in when the body overproduces uric acid, which forms -crystals in the blood. McCoist has since bravely opened up on his battle with an incurable condition known as Dupuytren’s contracture, or ‘Viking’s disease’. The football legend shared the personal struggle of living with the hereditary ailment that afflicted both his parents, causing fingers to bend inwards or sideways due to a thickening of the skin in the palm and at the base of the fingers. This progressive condition affects around two million Brits, including the former Scotland striker turned much-loved sports commentator. McCoist said: “I have got Dupuytren’s. It’s a hereditary thing where your fingers close in. I have had them done twice. I went to see the doctor and he said to me ‘Did your grandfather have it?’. I said ‘I don’t know’ because I never met any of my grandfathers, sadly they passed before I was born. “I said to him ‘But my dad had it’. He lifted his head up and said ‘You’re unlucky because it normally skips a generation’. I said ‘That’s good news because I have got five boys’. My wee mum had it as well. My mum had it, my dad had it, it’s a hereditary thing. “The bizarre thing with Dupuytren’s is when I went to see the doctor he said ‘I will operate on it but it will come back in roughly nine years’. And I swear to God nine years later it came back.”