Fernando Ricksen has Rangers fans in stitches after using his Stephen Hawking-style voicebox to swear during speech at supporters’ bash
The stricken Ibrox hero - who has been robbed of his voice as he battles motor neuron disease - shared anecdotes with supporters at a Q&A
FERNANDO Ricksen left Rangers fans in stitches by using his Stephen Hawking-style voicebox to swear.
The stricken Ibrox hero shared anecdotes with supporters at a Q&A — complete with X-rated punchlines.
Video shows cheeky Ricksen, 41, saying “c***” and “b*******” in a robotic female voice to the delight of Bluenoses.
Ricksen’s biographer Vincent De Vries said of his star turn: “Fernando wrote the whole speech by himself. It was very funny.
“He even set up an alarm noise on the keyboard to sound like a fire alarm for a joke — it was hilarious.”
Ricksen has been robbed of his voice by the ravages of motor neuron disease.
But Gers diehards flocked to the Ibrox bash on Saturday to ask him questions about his days as a Rangers hero.
He recalled once rousing his club doctor neighbour in the early hours when he cut his finger after setting off fireworks at home in Newton Mearns, near Glasgow.
Ricksen said: “When I asked if he’d been awake, he said he had because some c*** had put off fireworks.”
And he branded SFA blazers “b*******” for hitting him with a four-match ban after cops cleared him of an alleged on-pitch attack.
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Fans who saw the video on Twitter lapped up the banter, with NYC Bluenose writing: “Absolutely class. Still has his sense of humour.”
We told last month how ailing Ricksen uses the £20,000 tech to communicate with his wife Veronika, 32, and daughter Isabella, five.
He uses his eyes to select personalised phrases and can write his own chats.
The late Professor Stephen Hawking famously used a voice generator after his MND diagnosis aged 21.
Veronika also revealed the heartbreaking moment daughter Isabella asked if the Gers legend would ever play football again.
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