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WARBURTON IS WATCHING

RANGERS’ kids get the chance to sample a little of the bigtime atmosphere when they play at Ibrox today.

Graeme Murty’s Under-20 side takes on Falkirk in the SFA Youth Cup at 3pm.

Top team boss Mark Warburton will be watching.

He said: “We have really young players taking part, Billy Gilmour is only 15.

“There’s some real talent coming through. The challenge is to make sure they make the transition to the main squad.”

VAN TORNHOUT TURNS IT IN

A MAN with a unique place in Scottish football history has finally hung up his boots.

Striker Dieter van Tornhout (below) only scored one goal in the League Cup, but it was one that will never be forgotten by Kilmarnock fans.

The Belgian got the goal that beat Celtic 1-0 in the 2012 Final at Hampden, winning the only domestic honour that had previously eluded Killie. He has quit KSV Oudenaarde following the latest in a long line of knee operations and has plans to become a coach.

RUSSELL IS A MARK-ED MAN

ANNAN ATHLETIC are having a look at Mark Russell, the younger brother of Derby County’s Scotland striker, Jonny.

The Galabank side have invited the 20-year-old to join them for training, some twoand-a-half years after he left Dundee United, who were also his older sibling’s first club.

SPIDERS’ WORLDWIDE WEB

QUEEN’S PARK have launched a short film to mark their 150th birthday anniversary.

Back in the 1870s, Queen’s launched the passing game, and the film suggests that paved the way for the tiki-taka method that Barcelona and Lionel Messi have used in recent years.

They were also regular visitors to Denmark in the 1890s, and helped launch football in the country that gave the world the Laudrup brothers.