The goalkeeper had played just 20 minutes of football for the Reds, prior to our UEFA Europa League group stage game against Astana in Kazakhstan two weeks ago.
The 36-year-old made his first start for his boyhood club at the Astana Arena in Nur-Sultan, and even the subsequent 2-1 defeat to the Kazakh champions could not ruin the occasion for the veteran stopper.
“It’s been such a long process leading up to that moment,”
Grant, who joined the Reds in the summer of 2018, told United Review - our official matchday programme - ahead of the upcoming game with AZ Alkmaar on Thursday.