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IT was a 2.30pm kick-off, but there was no sign of Rangers' all-time record goal scorer Ally McCoist.

He was due to appear at yesterday's McEwan's Scottish People's Film and TV Festival, at the Glasgow Film Theatre.

The former Scotland international player who, two days ago, admitted an steamy fling with Liam Gallagher's former wife, actress Patsy Kensit, 33, failed to show.

McCoist had been booked to join Elaine C. Smith and international film heart-throb Dougray Scott to talk about the film industry.

Last night, the football hero's first film, A Shot at Glory, in which he stars with Hollywood legend Robert Duval, was premiered in Glasgow.

But a close friend said: "I think Ally will keep his head down for a few days because of an amazing coincidence - the movie mirrors his life exactly this weekend.

It was his first movie role, playing a football star who plays away from home and cheats on his wife.

At the theatre, Dougray Scott and Elaine C. Smith - whose new movie, Women Talking Dirty, was premiered at the Glasgow Festival on Friday - fell back on the old adage that the show must go on.

Afterwards, talking about the film industry on both side of the Atlantic, Dougray said: "Following the events in America, I think there will be a lot of changes in the type of movies which are made and we watch.

"I certainly hope so because we have all been touched by what happened in New York. Everyone says they can always remember where they were when the heard President Kennedy had been assassinated.

I'm only 37, so I wasn't even born when that happened in Dallas, but I am sure that everyone will always remember what they were doing when they heard about the World Trade Center.