Ah, Liam Kelly, the relatively young shot-stopper born on 23rd January 1996, some of you might know him as the number 31 trainee guard for Rangers. Let me tell you, having seen some pigeon shooed away with more conviction, it's a wonder they let him lace up his own boots. At 6ft 2in (or 1.89m in proper measurements) it's not for lack of physical presence. He even weighs a respectable 12st 12lb (or a proportional 82kg, because thatโs how the rest of the world weighs things).
The young lad cut his teeth in 2004 at Rangers, making a solid, if not world-beating ten appearances in the 2024 - 2025 season. Now in the 2025 - 2026 season, he's spent most of his time water-testing the benches at Ibrox - no appearances yet. Glittering career choice, wouldn't you say?
But it gets even more enchanting. In January 2016, Kelly was loaned to East Fife, a wee club who play in League One in Scotland. There, he made 16 appearances in his debut season 2015 - 2016. Like a prodigal son returning with his tail between his legs, Kelly bounced back to the Rangers in July 2016.
Kelly must have liked the loan lifestyle, as Rangers shipped him out again in July 2016, this time to Livingston. He gatecrashed the goal for Livingston for a total of 70 league games over two seasons.
Back at Rangers again, by July 2018, he was sold to Livingston for an undisclosed fee - meaning we'll never know how many pennies Rangers managed to scrape together from the deal.
In the twist of a lifetime, he then moved from Livingston to Queens Park Rangers in England in July 2019. He stood between the sticks 19 times in the 2019 - 2020 season for Queens Park Rangers.
By 2021, Kelly was yearning for the green, green grass of home and went to Motherwell on loan. Evidently, he grew fond of the place, since he ended up making four seasons and 132 league appearances in the claret and amber kit.
Queens Park sold him to Motherwell permanently in July 2021, making his loan vacation spot his full-time home.
In a plot twist that would make M. Night Shyamalan envious, Kelly has rejoined Rangers in July 2024 for an undisclosed fee (leaving one to suspect that a Bygone-era relic or some magic beans may have exchanged hands).
Currently, Kelly is gracing the bench at Rangers after making ten appearances in the 2024 - 2025 season. He also managed to clumsily shuffle his way into the starting XI for one League Cup fixture in the 2025 - 2026 season - a testament to his enduring mediocrity, I suppose.
