Cheers!

ANDY Graham has been the toast of Dumbarton fans recently with his man of the match performances.
But there’s someone even more delighted with the defender’s success – his dad David, who collects all his son’s prizes.
Andy has been named as the Sons Supporters Trust man of the match in Dumbarton’s last two home games after helping them to four points, and two clean sheets, against Livingston and Hearts.
The winner of that award walks away with a bottle of whisky – but there’s just one problem. Andy doesn’t drink.
But despite the fact that his awards go straight to his dad, he’s determined that his run of form will continue – and help Sons to another three points at Falkirk tomorrow.
He said: “I think my dad must have a say in choosing man of the match so that he can get a bottle of whisky!
“They’ll need to put a bottle of Irn Bru as the prize as a treat for me if I am nominated again.
“Seriously, it’s nice to be named as man of the match but it’s more important to be playing and getting results. There’s no point in playing well and coming away with nothing.
“We are looking forward to the game tomorrow. It’s important to go there with confidence that we can get the three points.
“It has been a positive to get two clean sheets in a row and get four points. It goes to show that we are hitting a bit of form.
“Drawing with Hearts, it wasn’t as if we were backs to the wall the whole game. On another day we could have sneaked it.
“We had a difficult start to the season, but I think that’s now traditional at Dumbarton. Even during that spell, we knew the good results would come.”
Andy was a doubt for the Hearts game with a back injury, but recovered to make himself Sons’ top player for the second game in a row.
Tomorrow’s game at Falkirk is one where history favours Dumbarton’s chances, with some fine results recorded there since winning promotion in 2012.
Andy continued: “I didn’t manage to train on Thursday last week but thanks to some good work by the physio I got to play the full 90 minutes against Hearts.
“It was still painful on Sunday and Monday but it’s getting to the stage where I’m nearly pain-free and I’ll hopefully be 100 per cent soon.
“Since the manager has come in we have won three times out of four at Falkirk. Against a side as good as them, that’s good going.
“Playing on the plastic pitch plays right into Falkirk’s hands as they play there every other week.
“But we know how good a group of players we have and we hope to get another result there tomorrow.”

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