Dumbarton & Vale of Leven Reporter | Sport | RANGERS TEST AT TESTIMONIAL

Tuesday, 6th January, 2009

Published: Tuesday, 24th July, 2007 10:04

RANGERS TEST AT TESTIMONIAL

By Frank Cassidy

SUPPORTERS literally saw a game of two halves on Saturday with a final score of Rangers 3 Vale of Leven 1.

For the Alex Lacy testimonial match, Vale of Leven played two different sets of players in each half, with the first half side made up mainly of guests and the second half consisting of Vale’s young first team for 2007/08.

Alex said: “I would like to thank Scott McKernan, Peter Dennison and Craig Mullholland for organising the game and Craig for bringing Rangers along for the match.

“It was a great turn-out of supporters and I was delighted with that and hopefully they can come back regularly during the season coming up.

“I am raring to go for the season and winning 1-0 with the second half team shows and the young boys that have come into the squad played well.

“In the first half, guys like Peter McLean who are in their 40s were playing as guests but the difference showed in the second half and it ended up a great day all round.”

An interested spectator was ex-Rangers and Spurs striker, Gordon Durie, whose son Scott is a central defender with the young Rangers side and an under-16 Scotland internationalist.

TEAMS — First half — Peter Dennison, Alex Lacy, Jim Meechan, Keith McBride, Brian Deeley, Brian Boal, Alex Grace, Brian Smith, Graeme McKenzie, Hugh Ward, Scott McKernan. Subs — Willie Howie, Toby King, Peter McLean, Kevin Goodwin, Mark O,Donnell.

Second half — Matthew Carr, David Grant, Robert McKenzie, Alex Lacy, Alex Drain, Craig Wotherspoon, Toby King, Jack Buchanan, Alan Ferguson, Iain Crawford, Stephen O’Meara. Subs - Mark Brown, Paul Ross, David Goodwin.

Lifelong Vale supporter, Norrie Clark kicked off the match and the scorers were — Rangers — Chris Craig, Andy Little and Stephen Forbes (all in the first half) and Iain Crawford for Vale in the 77th minute.

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