after an incident in the dressing room at caledonian stadium, inverness, on 27 december 2006, it was announced on bbc radio scotland's new year's day broadcast of "sportsound" that ferguson had been stripped of the rangers captaincy after a meeting with then manager paul le guen. he was also dropped from the squad for the next match. later le guen claimed ferguson was undermining him. "i'll go on record as saying i never had one bust-up with him, never had one argument with him. i don't know where all this comes from," explained ferguson eleven years later. "no disrespect to inverness caley — they had good players, no doubt — but we we're rangers here. we were dropping points against teams that we should be beating. so, i let it out a wee bit. there was no arguments, nothing in the dressing room. after i had said that, we flew back down to glasgow. we were playing motherwell next, i think, and i came in the day of, or the day before, the motherwell game. i came in, put my bag down, yves colleu, who was the assistant manager, comes in and says, 'paul wants to speak to you'. i went into his office and went to sit down, and [le guen] said, 'don't sit down. that's you finished; you won't play with rangers again.'"