Victory delights Dods

Murray believes United can build on Irn-Bru win

“We’ve been going through a tough run in the league for however long but this can give us the big lift we need.

“It gets our confidence back and we know we can push on from here.”

And Murray believes the way he and his team-mates responded to surrendering the lead a spectacular Tony Andreu strike had given them in the space for just 60 first-half seconds augurs well for what lies ahead.

“To be fair the goal that was lost wasn’t good,” he added.

“In the league we’ve been losing goals like that and our heads have gone down and we’ve lost games.

“This time we didn’t let it affect us and we showed what we’re capable of in that second half.

“That’s a good thing and we have to make sure we build on that as well as the result.”

For all his focus is now back on promotion, Murray has not forgotten what a remarkable story his is.

Not so long ago he was a junior footballer playing mainly for fun, so appreciates being a medal-winner more than most.

“People go through their whole career and have not won a thing.

“I’ve only been in the senior game for three years and I’ve played in the Premiership and won a cup. It’s a great feeling for me.

“It’s something I can look back on in the years to come and be proud of and, so long as we can get Dundee United back into the top division, I’ll be delighted.” STRIKER Andy Jackson fired home a stoppage-time goal to seal a 2-1 home win to send Brechin above opponents East Fife and into third place in League One.

City boss Darren Dods was delighted to see his men get the rub of the green on this occasion after losing added-time goals in each of their previous two games.

Dods said: “We lost late goals against Queen’s Park and Alloa so this evens things up a bit.

“We have had three hard games in a week, but we hemmed them in in the second half. They only had one corner and we had eight or nine.

Darren Dods “It was a great strike from Andy Jackson and he has scored in each of our last six games. “After the goal the ref added a chunk more added time and I don’t know where that came from.”