a header; this was the first time Milan had beaten Inter in the Derby in six years. Ayrton Senna lived in the apartment below him, and Boris Becker lived next door, during part of his time in Milan. Senna played five-a-side football with Hateley. Arsène Wenger then brought him to AS Monaco, his first signing for the club, in 1987 and he was part of the team which won the French Division 1 title in 1987–88. After three years at Monaco, a 28-year-old Hateley returned to Britain in a £1 million move to Rangers on 19 July 1990, taking an 80% reduction compared to his pay at Milan. Manager Graeme Souness had attempted to bring him to Ibrox three years earlier from Milan. Hateley became a key part of the Rangers side, and was voted player of the year by the Scottish Football Writers in 1993–94. He scored 112 goals for the Gers in all competitions, including two that clinched the championship on the final day in 1991 and one in each of the narrow Scottish Cup final victories in 1992 and 1993. Rangers were league champions in every season that Hateley played for them (scoring 85 Scottish Premier Division goals in the process), as they went on a run of nine successive titles, which lasted from 1989 until 1997. As for Hateley's renowned strike partnership at Rangers with Ally McCoist, Hateley said: "Alistair was the perfect partner for me. As a finisher, he was an unbelievable goal scorer. He linked with me. All the goal scorer does is he looks at the leader of the line and makes sure he's offset, fifteen yards away. It was a great partnership" In 1992–93, Rangers scored 97 goals. McCoist won the European Golden Boot, with 49 of them, and Hateley scored 29. After making 218 appearances for Rangers, he moved to Queens Park Rangers in November 1995, for a fee of £1.5 million. He had just recovered from having concurrent operations on his knee and ankle. Hateley said in 2021: "My dad always said to never make a decision when injured, or in ill-health, because invariably it will be the wrong decision, an emotional decision. I knew after literally ten days that it was the wrong move." In early 1997, with Rangers trying to win their ninth title in a row and with a long injury list, manager Walter Smith desperately needed