RANGERS new boy Michael O’Halloran delighted his dad, who is a coach at Celtic, with a vital goal that secured the ‘Gers a point away at Alloa.
The forward got the Light Blues out of jail with his late strike as it looked like Alloa would take the three points, in what would have been a shock victory.
O’Halloran was over the moon with his first goal in the famous jersey, however Mark Warburton was outraged at the amount of chances his side let slip.
The 25-year-old after the game said his Father, who is a coach at Celtic’s youth academy, was at the game to witness his first goal and first start for the Ibrox side.
O’Halloran said: “My dad was here watching so it was a special moment for my family to see me score my first goal. They support me so that means a lot to me.
“It was nice to get a goal but I’m devastated we didn’t get three points. When you see the chances we created I don’t know how we’ve not come away with the points.
“Had we had another 10 minutes we might have got that winning goal but it was pleasing for myself to get off the mark.
“I’ve never played in a game where we’ve had 23 corners. At St. Johnston we were set up more to be a hard team to beat rather than throwing ourselves at teams.
“It was a great performance from their keeper, some of the saves he might not even have known much about, but he was fantastic.
“The manager is anger at dropping points in a game we should have won. All the lads were sitting in there dejected but all we can do is look to kick on.”
O’Halloran repeated his manager’s refusal to blame the draw on the dimensions of the pitch. He added: “I don’t think we can blame the pitch because we had a lot of chances.
“That’s the way it’s going with a lot of pitches around and we’ve just got to deal with that.”
