My Rangers pal Craig Gordon will come back stronger, says Motherwell keeper Liam Kelly with Scotland role up for grabs
dailyrecord.co.ukLiam Kelly has no doubt that Hearts star Craig Gordon will come back stronger, following his leg-break hell.The 40-year-old suffered a double leg-break in a collision with Dundee United striker Steven Fletcher as the sides drew 2-2 on Christmas Eve, ruling him out for the rest of this season.Motherwell star Kelly grew close to ex-Celt Gordon while he was under-20 goalkeeper at Rangers and Gordon was undergoing rehab at Ibrox, and has been in contact with him following the harrowing incident.And Kelly says he won’t make any special effort to nab Gordon’s Scotland jersey, saying it is up to Steve Clarke.He said: “I spoke to Craig on the night it happened, and I was just gutted for him at the time.“It’s a horrific injury, but I think he will be back.
I have full faith that he will be back – he’s dealt with set-backs in his career before.“He’s an amazing goalie, a really good guy, and I expect him to be just as good as what he’s always been.“Age is just a number for Craig; you watch him every week and he’s unbelievable.“It’s probably a long recovery for him, but I fully expect him to get back to the levels he was at.”Kelly added: “Craig was at Rangers when I was younger.
He did his rehab when I was the under-20s goalkeeper, and he did the training sessions with me.“I’ve got a great relationship with him, we talk a lot when we go away with the national team, and he has been a great help, even just in terms of his actual goalkeeping ability.“I watch him and try and steal things from his game.“I fully expect to be playing against him when he returns.
I don’t expect it to have a negative effect on him. I think he’s got a great mentality.”On the vacant Scotland No.1 jersey, Kelly said: “There are plenty of good goalies that the
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