Rangers youth set up. One of the very first decisions made that summer was to empty out the entire under-15 squad, which came as something of a surprise to us all given two successive seasons of almost complete dominance across our age level.
For a youngster rehabilitating from a double leg-break, still harbouring ambitions of following in the footsteps of John Spencer and Gary McSwegan – both of whom progressed from the year above into the reserves – it also felt like a fairly crushing blow.On reflection, more than 30 years on, it was very possibly the ultimate blessing in disguise.
I never met Neely. And there’s hardly a day gone by recently when I haven’t felt overwhelmingly grateful for it. A year earlier we had turned his Hibs side.
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