Liam Kelly faces up to Rangers reality but insists 20 year dream debut wait was worth every minute

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Liam Kelly is smart enough to realise his brief run in the Rangers line-up is in all likelihood already over. But even if it lasted all of 90 minutes, the Ibrox back-up keeper insists it was well worth the 20-year wait.The former Ibrox academy graduate was hurriedly handed the gloves just moments before Saturday’s 1-0 win over Dundee kicked-off.

The former Motherwell skipper got the nod when Light Blues No1 Jack Butland received the call he’d been holding out for from his expectant wife Annabel.While the Englishman made the emergency dash to the labour suite in time to see the arrival of their fourth child, it was left to Kelly to help Gers deliver a much-needed three points against Tony Docherty’s Dens Park side.

There wasn’t much enthusiasm around Ibrox after last week’s defeat to Celtic in the Premier Sports Cup final. But try telling that to Kelly as he finally fulfilled a life-long ambition to represent a club he first joined at the age of just eight.“It felt unbelievable,” said the 28-year-old, who returned to Ibrox in the summer for a second spell with the club. “I've been at Rangers a long, long time.

It was 20 years ago that I first walked through the gates of the training centre. So that's what I've waited for the majority of my life.