FORMER Rangers winger Gregg Wylde has revealed Kyle Lafferty set off a firecracker in the Murray Park changing room.

The Northern Irishman spent four years in Light Blue after Walter Smith paid £3.5million to sign him from Burnley in 2008.

Lafferty was no stranger to a dressing room prank in his time and Wylde has recalled the occasion when the striker forced the Gers' training base to be evacuated.

Wylde told the FourLadsHadADream Podcast: "Bonfire night was coming up and Lee McCulloch knew a guy who could get us fireworks.

"So he came in one day and said ‘does anyone want fireworks or rockets for your family at home?’ Some of the boys said aye and, to cut the story short, he brought fireworks in.

"There were these firecrackers. Have you ever seen Home Alone when he puts the firecrackers outside the back door? Lee McCulloch brought them in, the session finished in the morning and, I don’t know how, Kyle Lafferty got into his locker.

"The boys were in the shower and the place was steamed up because of the water. Kyle thought it was funny to put a couple in a water bottle and lit it.

"He lit the firecrackers, put it in a water bottle and chucked it into the showers. We couldn’t see what was in it because of the smoke. A minute later, this bottle explodes and cracks everywhere.

"I couldn’t believe he had set a firework off in the changing room. The fire alarm goes off so we all had to get changed and leave Murray Park.

"We were like ‘what the hell was that?’ Lafferty thought it was funny to let off a firecracker, put in in a bottle and put it in the showers."

The firework incident wasn't the only Lafferty prank that Wylde found himself involved in during his Ibrox career.

But another moment of madness had more severe consequences for the striker ahead of a Champions League clash with Manchester United.

Wylde said: “We were playing Man Utd and it was Kyle Lafferty again. It was United at home and Kyle Hutton made his debut.

“We were staying at Mar Hall and we were coming into train at Murray Park on the morning of the game just to shape up.

“Kyle Lafferty came off the bus and, I don’t know why, suddenly decides he wants to jump on my back. So he jumps on my back and slips and falls and breaks two of his fingers.

“We were like ‘what is he doing?’ His finger was actually back to front.

“I said ‘what did you jump on my back for?’ and thought ‘oh no, I am going to get criticised here by the gaffer’. Kyle popped up and said it was his fault for jumping on my back and falling off and breaking his finger.”