Jack Butland relives Rangers blunder against Man Utd as keeper lifts lid on scary injury that landed him in hospital

It took Jack Butland three weeks to overcome the painful dead leg which led to a hasty rush to hospital. But the Rangers keeper admits it’s taken years of experience to get to the point where he can shake off the kind of stinging blows he sustained at Old Trafford.

The former Manchester United stopper was back at the Theatre of Dreams last week as his Light Blues team faced up to his former employers in the Europa League. But it proved to be a return to forget for the Ibrox No1 as his horrid OG blunder gave Rubin Amorim’s side the lead.

Butland, though, refused to let that mistake put him off his game, with the 31-year-old bouncing back to make a number of key saves as Gers came close to snatching a surprise draw before Bruno Fernandes’ heart-breaking winner. And he followed that up with another solid showing a Dundee United on Sunday as Gers claimed a rare away win in the league. The Man Utd gaffe was a bodyblow - but nothing Butland hasn’t dealt with before.

He said: “The life of a keeper is a very unforgiving one. I came away from that game at Old Trafford, one of those where you look back on it and you just think you didn't really put much of a foot wrong.

"You make a lot of saves, you look back on your distribution, the passes I made and the decisions I made, positions I took up and you’re happy.

“But the life of a keeper, it takes one moment and you're the villain immediately. The biggest thing from those games is to look back at it, take from it the facts, take from the realities and for large parts, if not the majority of it, I didn't put a foot wrong.

“You sort of come away shaking your head in disbelief at times, but being a goalkeeper is like that. There's maximum punishment. I look back at that situation and